COOPERATIVE LOCALIZATION FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS

摘要

A system and corresponding method using a cooperative localization techni que for self identifying a location of a wireless device in a wireless netwo rk is presented. The system may estimate an arbitrary signal metric as a fun ction of a signal received by the wireless device from the at least one othe r wireless device in the wireless network. The system may also convert at le ast one belief representing a distribution of at least one possible location of the at least one other wireless device to generate at least one converte d belief. The system may further determine a self-belief as a function of th e at least one converted belief and identify a self location, as a function of the self-belief, within the wireless network.