Abstract:Concerning the poor localization precision of Distance Vector-Hop (DV-Hop), a calibration based DV-Hop algorithm with credible neighborhood distance estimation (CDV-Hop) was proposed, which defined a new measure to estimate the neighborhood distances by relating the proximity of two neighbors to their connectivity difference, and then calculated the more accurate neighborhood distances. According to the unique location relationship between the unknown nodes and their nearest anchor nodes, this algorithm added the calibration step, which took the credible neighborhood distances as the calibration standard to correct the position of unknown nodes. The simulation results show that the CDV-Hop algorithm works stably in different network environment. With the ratio of anchor nodes increasing, there is an improvement of 4.57% to 10.22% in localization precision compared with DV-Hop algorithm and 3.2% to 8.93% in localization precision compared with Improved DV-Hop (IDV-Hop) algorithm.