3DPHDV-Hop: A new 3D positioning algorithm using partial HopSize in WSN

This paper presents a new three-dimensional positioning algorithm, named 3DPHDV-Hop, which can significantly improve the performance in terms of positioning error and coverage by using self-tune selection of projection plane and exploiting partial average hop size instead of global average hop size in wireless sensor network. The simulation results show that the accuracy of our proposed algorithm can notably enhance the positioning coverage, compared to APIS algorithm at a maximum percentage of up to 45.2%, `Simple 3D DV-Hop' at a percentage of 35.4%, and `3D-MDS' at a percentage of 32.3%. Therefore, our algorithm has the larger potential which can be used in much more fields under the real deployment environment of WSN.