The paper gives an overview of multidimensional
scaling (MDS) algorithm. Aside from brief introduction to
MDS, its characteristics, its various types and its current
applications has been discussed in wireless systems i.e.
localization of wireless sensors in a network and determining
the position of a mobile station without GPS. MDS is an
algorithm by means of which information contained in a set of
data is represented by a set of points in a low dimensional space.
These points are arranged in such a way that distances between
the points represents the relation between the data elements