An improved localization scheme based on IMDV-hop for large-scale wireless mobile sensor aquaculture networks

With the hasteful development of ocean economy and the increasing exploiture of ocean resources, offshore water is contaminated seriously. Ocean ecological environment is unprecedentedly faced to threat and destruction. Moreover, the desire for aquatic and marine products is increasing consumedly according to people's health attention rising. It is extremely urgent to establish and maintain low-cost and high-efficient transmission and localization schemes for real-time large-scale aquaculture surveillance systems. Localization scheme IMDV-hop (Intermittent Mobile DV-hop) embedded in WLS (weighted least square) method, accompanying with HTC (Hidden Terminal Couple), is proposed in this work for the purpose of environment surveillance, object localization for early warning, rescue operations, and restructuring plan, etc. Two critical parameters, correction coefficient k(c) and weighted coefficient W-Nx,W-i, are introduced into IMDV-hop scheme for large-scale aquaculture monitoring and localization mobile sensor systems to evaluate the influence on localization behaviors, and subsequently guarantee localization accuracy and time-critical performance. And localization error, delay, and consumption are predicted by comprehensive NS-2 simulations. Besides, performance comparisons of IMDV-hop scheme with other DV-hop-based schemes and MCL-based scheme are also proposed. Analysis and comparison results show that delay behavior of IMDV-hop is improved largely relative to other schemes, while accuracy and energy consumption performance is improved in some cases of more node density and lower mobile velocity.