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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Target localization using RSS measurements in wireless sensor networks

Li, Zeyuan January 2018 (has links)
The subject of this thesis is the development of localization algorithms for target localization in wireless sensor networks using received signal strength (RSS) measurements or Quantized RSS (QRSS) measurements. In chapter 3 of the thesis, target localization using RSS measurements is investigated. Many existing works on RSS localization assumes that the shadowing components are uncorrelated. However, here, shadowing is assumed to be spatially correlated. It can be shown that localization accuracy can be improved with the consideration of correlation between pairs of RSS measurements. By linearizing the corresponding Maximum Likelihood (ML) objective function, a weighted least squares (WLS) algorithm is formulated to obtain the target location. An iterative technique based on Newtons method is utilized to give a solution. Numerical simulations show that the proposed algorithms achieves better performance than existing algorithms with reasonable complexity. In chapter 4, target localization with an unknown path loss model parameter is investigated. Most published work estimates location and these parameters jointly using iterative methods with a good initialization of path loss exponent (PLE). To avoid finding an initialization, a global optimization algorithm, particle swarm optimization (PSO) is employed to optimize the ML objective function. By combining PSO with a consensus algorithm, the centralized estimation problem is extended to a distributed version so that can be implemented in distributed WSN. Although suboptimal, the distributed approach is very suitable for implementation in real sensor networks, as it is scalable, robust against changing of network topology and requires only local communication. Numerical simulations show that the accuracy of centralized PSO can attain the Cramer Rao Lower Bound (CRLB). Also, as expected, there is some degradation in performance of the distributed PSO with respect to the centralized PSO. In chapter 5, a distributed gradient algorithm for RSS based target localization using only quantized data is proposed. The ML of the Quantized RSS is derived and PSO is used to provide an initial estimate for the gradient algorithm. A practical quantization threshold designer is presented for RSS data. To derive a distributed algorithm using only the quantized signal, the local estimate at each node is also quantized. The RSS measurements and the local estimate at each sensor node are quantized in different ways. By using a quantization elimination scheme, a quantized distributed gradient method is proposed. In the distributed algorithm, the quantization noise in the local estimate is gradually eliminated with each iteration. Simulations show that the performance of the centralized algorithm can reach the CRLB. The proposed distributed algorithm using a small number of bits can achieve the performance of the distributed gradient algorithm using unquantized data.
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Position-adaptive Direction Finding for Multi-platform RF Emitter Localization using Extremum Seeking Control

Al Issa, Huthaifa A. 21 August 2012 (has links)
No description available.
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A model to predict the coverage of VHF transmissions / En modell för att förutse täckningen för VHF-sändningar

Duong, Le January 2015 (has links)
VHF står för "Very High Frequency" och är ett frekvensband som ligger i området 30 - 300 MHz. Maritim VHF är standard för Sjöfartsverket och fungerar över hela världen. Det är ett kommunikationssystem som bidrar till ökad säkerhet och kan rädda liv på sjön. Andra vanliga kommunikationssystem som mobiltelefoni fungerar inte tillförlitligt. Idag fungerar mobiltelefoni i stora delar av skärgården och längs kusterna men när det gäller kommunikation mellan fartyg längre ut till havs är den maritima VHF-kommunikationen överlägsen. Sjöfartsverket driver för sitt eget och kunders behov ett mobilradionätverk kallat kustradionätverket. Radiotrafiken i nätet sker både på Very High Frequency (VHF) och Medium frequency (MF). VHF-systemet är ett internationellt system som bland annat används till att kommunicera till sjöss och den trafiken befinner sig i frekvensbandet 155.5 - 162.025 MHz. Inom VHF-bandet finns det 55 kanaler. Kanalerna vid kustradiostationen kallas för duplexkanaler och innebär att kustradiostationerna sänder och tar emot signaler på två olika frekvenser. Radioutbredningen hos antennen som är installerad på basstationen har riktverkan i vissa riktningar och dämpningar i andra. Detta kan ses i strålningsdiagrammet under kapitlet "Täckningsmodell" och avsnittet antennen. Andra faktorer som kan påverka radioutbredningen är förluster i basstationenssystemet, topologin hos området mellan sändare och mottagare samt väderberoende utbredningsegenskaper. Genom att hitta de tänkbara faktorer som påverkar signalutbredningen kan en täckningsmodell förutses. Det är förluster som finns i basstationen, radiolänken samt förluster vid mottagarantennen.

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