Matrix Completion Based Localization in the Internet of Things Network

Abstract: In order to make a proper reaction to the collected information from internet of things (IoT) devices, location information of things should be available at the data center. One challenge for the massive IoT networks is to identify the location map of whole sensor nodes from partially observed distance information. In this paper, we propose a matrix completion based localization algorithm to reconstruct the location map of sensors using partially observed distance information. From the numerical experiments, we show that the proposed method based on the modified conjugate gradient is effective in recovering the Euclidean distance matrix.