Time Synchronization

Time synchronization is an essential requirement in actually any distributed system such as sensor networks. Many applications require precise clocks, e.g., for the coordination of wake-up and sleeping times, TDMA schedules, ordering of sensed events, estimation of position information, and so on. T...

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Published inAlgorithms for Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks Vol. 4621; pp. 359 - 380
Main Authors Busse, Marcel, Streichert, Thilo
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2007
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Algorithms & data structures
Malicious Node
Network hardware
Packet Delay
Round Trip Time
Software Engineering
Synchronization Error
Time Synchronization
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ISBN354074990X
9783540749905
ISSN0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI10.1007/978-3-540-74991-2_19

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Summary:Time synchronization is an essential requirement in actually any distributed system such as sensor networks. Many applications require precise clocks, e.g., for the coordination of wake-up and sleeping times, TDMA schedules, ordering of sensed events, estimation of position information, and so on. The scope of time synchronization is to estimate (i) packet delay or latency, (ii) the offset between clocks, and (iii) the drift between clocks.
ISBN:354074990X
9783540749905
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-74991-2_19