Impacts of Deployment Strategies on Localization Performance in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

Impacts of Deployment Strategies on Localization Performance in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

Abstract— Impacts of Deployment Strategies on Localization Performance in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks. When setting up an underwater acoustic sensor network UASN , node deployment is the first and foremost task, upon which many fundamental network services, such as network topology control, routing, and boundary detection, will be built. While node deployment in 2-D terrestrial wireless sensor networks has been extensively studied, little attention has been received by their 3-D counterparts. This paper aims at analyzing the impacts of node deployment strategies on localization performances in a 3-D environment. More specifically, < Final Year Projects 2016 >the simulations conducted in this paper reveal that the regular tetrahedron deployment scheme outperforms the random deployment scheme and the cube deployment scheme in terms of reducing localization error and increasing localization ratio while maintaining the average number of neighboring anchor nodes and network connectivity.