Research Article, J Comput Eng Inf Technol Vol: 2 Issue: 3
Comparison of Proactive vs. Reactive Localization Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
| Sadaf Tanvir1*, Majid Iqbal Khan1 and Benoit Ponsard2 | |
| 1COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan | |
| 2Kimeggi Consulting, 18 Av. Beaumarchais, Grenoble, France | |
| Corresponding author : Sadaf Tanvir COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan E-mail: sadaf@comsats.edu.pk |
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| Received: July 09, 2013 Accepted: September 21, 2013 Published: September 30, 2013 | |
| Citation: Tanvir S, Khan MI, Ponsard B (2013) Comparison of Proactive vs. Reactive Localization Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks. J Comput Eng Inf Technol 2:3. doi:10.4172/2324-9307.1000111 |
Abstract
Comparison of Proactive vs. Reactive Localization Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Randomly deployed nodes in a wireless sensor network (WSN) gain benefit of being aware of their location for routing or delivering meaningful information to the base station. Many WSN localization methods have been investigated in terms of their convergence, position refinement or need of a reference coordinate system. In this paper, we present a study on two possible ways of using twoway ranging technique for range based sensor node localization. Two-way ranging technique has gained popularity in WSNs since it does not require clock synchronization in inexpensive and energy constrained sensor nodes. We present two distributed techniques for localization using two-way ranging. These techniques use two different approaches for localization, one is the proactive approach and the other is the reactive approach. In the proactive approach, localization process is initiated by the localized nodes, whereas, the later the process is initiated by the non-localized nodes. We compare the two techniques in terms of their convergence condition, convergence delay and communication cost.
