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This work considers the problem of locating a single source from noisy range measurements to a set of nodes in a wireless sensor network. We propose two new techniques that we designate as Source Localization with Nuclear Norm (SLNN) and Source Localization with l ₁ -norm (SL-l ₁ ), which extend to arbitrary real dimensions our prior work on 2D source localization formulated in the complex plane. Our approach is based on formulating a Maximum-Likelihood (ML) estimation problem, and then using convex relaxation techniques to obtain a semidefinite program (SDP) that can be globally and efficiently solved. SLNN directly approximates the Gaussian ML solution, and the relaxation is shown to be tighter than in other methods in the same class. We present an analysis of the convexity properties of the constraint set for the 2D complex version of SLNN (SLCP) to justify the observed tightness of the relaxation …