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The location awareness is useful in many wireless networking solutions, such as cellular, ad hoc, self-organizing, cognitive radio networks, and so on. The RSS-based, non-Bayesian source localization is of particular interest, due to the presence of the RSS measurements in all radio devices, as well as the instantaneous estimations without extensive training and learning phases. However, most RSS-based localization algorithms usually neglect problems arising from inherent network topology uncertainty. The positions of some measuring anchors, usually assumed to be precisely known in advance, are often a subject of previous estimation, which propagates errors in the source localization procedure and results in performance degradation. A joint localization framework, termed source position estimation for anchor position uncertainty reduction (SPEAR), has been recently proposed as a possible solution to the …