Information Technology Journal1812-56381812-5646Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/itj.2013.712.719GaoPeng ShiWei-Ren ZhouWei LiHong-Bing WangXiao-Gang 42013124Node localization is a fundamental problem in many wireless sensor networks applications. In this study, based on simulated annealing approach, an adaptive RSSI compensation strategy in cooperative localization (called SA-ARC-CL algorithm) is proposed. Firstly, we built cooperative localization model and then extract the localization problem based on this model. The core problem is to find the right RSSI compensation of each Access Point (AP). After that, an improved simulated annealing approach is proposed to solve this problem, in which some new rules are proposed to make this solution more effective. Finally, based on RSSI compensation, WCL algorithm is used to obtain the final position of each UN. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm performs better than WCL algorithm using only a few APs and has a good RSSI adaptive ability in indoor localization applications.]]>Aydin, M.E. and T.C. Fogarty,200410269292Bahl, P. and V.N. Padmanabhan,20002000pp: 775784Wang, B., G. Yang and X. Jie,20111015711578Blumenthal, J., R. Grossmann, F. Golatowski and D. Timmermann,20072007pp: 16Chan, Y.T., H.Y.C. Hang and P.C. Ching,2006551016Chen, T.S., J. Chen and Y.R. Tu,20111018361841Cui, T.S., Q.Z. Zhang and Y.L. Zhang,20112011pp: 933936Escalona-Vargas, D.I., D. Gutierrez and I. Lopez-Arevalo,20112011pp: 71157118Geng, X.T., J. Xu, J.H. Xiao and L.Q. Pan,200717750645071Guerra-Gomez, I., E. Tlelo-Cuautle, M.A. Duarte-Villasenor and C. Sanchez-Lopez,20122012pp: 1-30pp: 1-30De la Fraga, L.G., E. Tlelo-Cuautle, V.H. Carbajal Gomez and J.M. Munoz Pacheco,201258274281Polanco-Martagon, S., G. Reyes-Salgado, G. Flores-Becerra, I. Guerra-Gomez, E. Tlelo-Cuautle, L.G. de la Fraga and M.A. Duarte-Villasenor,201210472483Priyantha, N.B., A. Chakraborty and H. Balakrishnan,20002000pp: 3243Rahman, M.S., Y. Park and K.D. Kim,20123710431053Tlelo-Cuautle, E., I. Guerra-Gomez, C.A. Reyes-Garcia and M.A. Duarte-Villasenor,20102010pp: 173-192pp: 173-192Tlelo-Cuautle, E., I.G. Gomez, L.G. de la Fraga, G.F. Becerra and S.P. Martagon et al.,20102010Tlelo-Cuautle, E., I. Guerra-Gomez, M.A. Duarte-Villasenor, L.G. de la Fraga and G. Flores-Becerra et al.,20101018591872Wang, L., X.P. Cai, W.H. Fan and H.Y. Zhang,20082008pp: 18621867Wu, H., M. Deng, L. Xiao, W. Wei and A. Gao,201110239245Yang, J. and Y.Y. Chen,20092009pp: 16Zhang, Y.H., Q.M. Cui and X.F. Tao,20092009