An improved range-free location algorithm for industrial wireless sensor networks

In the traditional DV-Hop location algorithm, the number of hops within the communication radius is counted as one hop. However, in the case of uneven distribution of nodes, this method will bring a large error to the calculation of hop distance. In order to solve the above problems, an improved DV-Hop location algorithm with multiple communication radius is proposed in this paper. Based on the multi-communication radius location algorithm, the method uses the cosine theorem to correct the hop number and estimated the average hop distance, and optimizes the estimated distance of the unknown node. The algorithm uses multiple communication radius to broadcast the position to obtain the minimum number of hops between the unknown node and the beacon node and adjusts the estimated hop distance by using the cosine theorem after estimating the good hop distance, and finally uses the trilateration method, or the maximum likelihood estimation method estimates the position coordinates. The experimental results show that compared with the traditional DV-Hop algorithm and DDV-Hop algorithm, the improved DV-Hop algorithm improves the positioning accuracy and reduces the average positioning error of the unknown nodes.