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The paper addresses state estimation for clock synchronization in the presence of factors affecting the quality of synchronization. Examples are temperature variations and delay asymmetry. These working conditions make synchronization a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Maurizio Mongelli , Stefano Scanzio

This paper develops a fast, accurate and energy-efficient time synchronization protocol in wireless sensor networks that operate in harsh environments. The suggested protocol concept is based on an electrical physical metaphor. The protocol…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Ali Al-Shaikhi , Ahmad Masoud

Clock asynchronism is a critical issue in integrating radar sensing into communication networks. It can cause ranging ambiguity and prevent coherent processing of dis-continuous measurements in integration with asynchronous transceivers.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 J. Andrew Zhang , Kai Wu , Xiaojing Huang , Y. Jay Guo , Daqing Zhang , Robert W. Heath

Synchronization and localization are critical challenges for the coherent functioning of a wireless network, which are conventionally solved independently. Recently, various estimators have been proposed for pairwise synchronization between…

Applications · Statistics 2015-04-15 Raj Thilak Rajan , Alle-Jan van der Veen

Accurate time synchronization is essential for Internet of Things (IoT) systems, where multiple distributed nodes must share a common time base for coordinated sensing and data fusion. However, conventional synchronization approaches suffer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ziyao Zhou , Tiancheng Cao , Chen Shen , Jiaqi Zhang , Yuting Liu , Hen-Wei Huang

Time synchronization for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been studied in recent years as a fundamental and significant research issue. Many applications based on these WSNs assume local clocks at each sensor node that need to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Surendra Rahamatkar , Dr. Ajay Agarwal

Sub-nanosecond precision clock synchronization over the packet network has been achieved by the White Rabbit protocol for a decade. However, few computer systems utilize such a technique. We try to attract more interest in the clock…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Ying Zhang

We consider the fundamental problem of clock synchronization in a synchronous multi-agent system. Each agent holds a clock with an arbitrary initial value, and clocks must eventually indicate the same value. Previous algorithms worked in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Louis Penet de Monterno

Synchronizing clocks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices is important for applications such as monitoring and real time control. In this paper, we describe a system for clock synchronization in IoT devices that is designed to be scalable,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Sathiya Kumaran Mani , Ramakrishnan Durairajan , Paul Barford , Joel Sommers

This article develops a protocol to synchronize clocks on board a network of satellites equipped with quantum resources. We show that, in such a constellation, satellites reinforce each other's sync capabilities, forming a common clock that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Sage Ducoing , Ivan Agullo , James E. Troupe , Stav Haldar

Industrial control systems present numerous challenges from the communication systems perspective: clock synchronization, deterministic behavior, low latency, high reliability, flexibility, and scalability. These challenges are mostly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Inaki Val , Oscar Seijo , Raul Torrego , Armando Astarloa

We study the problem of clock synchronization in a networked system with arbitrary starts for all nodes. We consider a synchronous network of $n$ nodes, where each node has a local clock that is an integer counter. Eventually, clocks must…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Louis Penet de Monterno

In this paper we have proposed clock error mitigation from the measurements in the scheduled based self localization system. We propose measurement model with clock errors while following a scheduled transmission among anchor nodes.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Baptiste Cavarec , Satyam Dwivedi , Mats Bengtsson , Peter Händel

Energy-saving optimization is very important for various engineering problems related to modern distributed systems. We consider here a control problem for a wireless sensor network with a single time server node and a large number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-08 Larisa Manita

Distributed wireless clock synchronization is essential for aligning the clocks of distributed transceivers in support of joint transmission and reception techniques. One recently explored method involves synchronizing distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Kumar Sai Bondada , Hiten Kothari , Yibin Liang , Daniel J. Jakubisin , R. Michael Buehrer

The present work considers the localization problem in wireless sensor networks formed by fixed nodes. Each node seeks to estimate its own position based on noisy measurements of the relative distance to other nodes. In a centralized batch…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Gemma Morral , Pascal Bianchi

Synchronization and ranging in internet of things (IoT) networks are challenging due to the narrowband nature of signals used for communication between IoT nodes. Recently, several estimators for range estimation using phase difference of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Tarik Kazaz , Mario Coutino , Gerard J. M. Janssen , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

We introduce a distributed algorithm for clock synchronization in sensor networks. Our algorithm assumes that nodes in the network only know their immediate neighborhoods and an upper bound on the network's diameter. Clock-synchronization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-02-05 Rodolfo M. Pussente , Valmir C. Barbosa

Large-scale distributed Multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) is a promising wireless network architecture that combines the advantages of "massive MIMO" and "small cells." It consists of several Access Points (APs) connected to a central server via a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Ryan Rogalin , Ozgun Bursalioglu , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire , Andreas Molisch , Antonios Michaloliakos , Vlad Balan , Konstantinos Psounis

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), implementing a high-precision time synchronization scheme on resource-constrained sensor nodes is a major challenge. Our investigation of the practical implementation on a real testbed of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Xintao Huan , Kyeong Soo Kim