A multivariate analysis-based for range-free localization algorithm

A multivariate analysis-based for range-free localization algorithm

Hao Yan1, Xiaoyong Yan2, Rulin Dou1

1School of Software Engineering, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211169, China
2School of Intelligence Science and Control, Jinling Institute of Technology,Nanjing 211169, China

Proposed an improved DV-Hop localization algorithm (PLS-DVHop) based on partial least squares, which uses the partial least squares to model of hop-count and the Euclidean distances, along with the maximum covariance of input matrix and output matrix to estimate the location of unknown nodes. PLS-DVHop has strong adaptability for different deployment network, and overcomes the shortage of only suitable for isotropic networks in the original algorithm. Simulation results show that PLS-DVHop algorithm has high estimate precision and stable performance, can adapt to different network topologies, and is very suitable for large scale deployment network.