Author:
Chen Yuanpeng,Yao Zhiqiang,Peng Zheng
Abstract
In time-of-arrival (TOA)-based source localization, accurate positioning can be achieved only when the correct signal propagation time between the source and the sensors is obtained. In practice, a clock error usually exists between the nodes causing the source and sensors to often be in an asynchronous state. This leads to the asynchronous source localization problem which is then formulated to a least square problem with nonconvex and nonsmooth objective function. The state-of-the-art algorithms need to relax the original problem to convex programming, such as semidefinite programming (SDP), which results in performance loss. In this paper, unlike the existing approaches, we propose a proximal alternating minimization positioning (PAMP) method, which minimizes the original function without relaxation. Utilizing the biconvex property of original asynchronous problem, the method divides it into two subproblems: the clock offset subproblem and the synchronous source localization subproblem. For the former we derive a global solution, whereas the later is solved by a proposed efficient subgradient algorithm extended from the simulated annealing-based Barzilai–Borwein algorithm. The proposed method obtains preferable localization performance with lower computational complexity. The convergence of our method in Lyapunov framework is also established. Simulation results demonstrate that the performance of PAMP method can be close to the optimality benchmark of Cramér–Rao Lower Bound.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
Cited by
4 articles.
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