An Experimental Study on the Effectiveness of Trilateration and Probabilistic Multilateration for Position Estimation in MANETs
Anabel Pineda-Briseño$^{1}$, Rolando Menchaca-Méndez$^{2}$
$^{1}$Instituto Tecnológico de Matamoros. Tamaulipas Mexico,
$^{2}$Instituto Politécnico Nacional.. México- D.F. Mexico
email: anabel.pineda@itmatamoros.edu.mx, rmen@cic.ipn.mx

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In this paper we present an experimental study of trilateration and probabilistic multilateration. Both methods are techniques aimed at estimating the location of a point, based on the position of three or more references and distances to them. To asses the effectiveness of the aforementioned methods, we present a characterization of the various error conditions, a sensitivity analysis of the trilateration and probabilistic multilateration to measure the level of collinearity among references, and a simulation-based analysis describing the results of detailed simulation experiments used to study the performance of DV-Hop that use trilateration as method to estimate the position of their nodes, as well as the version of DV-Hop that use probabilistic multilateration for the same purpose. DV-Hop is the most representative range-free positioning algorithms in the context of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Our experimental results show that the probabilistic multilateration method is superior to the traditional trilateration method.

BibTex

@InProceedings{CLEI-2015:144319,
	author 		= {Anabel Pineda-Briseño and Rolando Menchaca-Méndez},
	title 		= {An Experimental Study on the Effectiveness of Trilateration and Probabilistic Multilateration for Position Estimation in MANETs},
	booktitle 	= {2015 XLI Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI)},
	pages 		= {131--139},
	year 		= {2015},
	editor 		= {Hector Cancela and Alex Cuadros-Vargas and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas},
	address 	= {Arequipa-Peru},
	month 		= {October},
	organization 	= {CLEI},
	publisher 	= {CLEI},
	url 		= {http://clei.org/clei2015/144319},
	isbn 		= {978-1-4673-9143-6},
	}