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In wireless communication systems, Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) includes variants using either a cyclic prefix (CP) or a zero padding (ZP) as the guard interval to avoid inter-symbol interference. OFDM is ideally suited…
With the advancement of technologies like Industry 4.0, communication networks must meet stringent requirements of applications demanding deterministic and bounded latencies. The problem is further compounded by the need to periodically…
Harris Corporation has an interest in making HF radios a suitable medium for wireless information networks using standard Internet protocols. Although HF radio links have many unique characteristics, HF wireless subnets can be subject to…
Massive co-located devices require new paradigms to allow proper network connectivity. Internet of things (IoT) is the paradigm that offers a solution for the inter-connectivity of devices, but in dense IoT networks time synchronization is…
We demonstrate a point-to-point clock synchronization protocol based on bidirectionally exchanging photons produced in spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC). The technique exploits tight timing correlations between photon pairs to…
As far as we know, a useful quantum computer will require fault-tolerant gates, and existing schemes demand a prohibitively large space and time overhead. We argue that a first generation quantum computer will be very valuable to design,…
The article provides a comparative analysis of four communication protocols between Omron PLC and PC for their use in real-time control of an industrial robot. The need for real-time communication appears when the robot control system is…
Accurate network synchronization is a key enabler for services such as coherent transmission, cooperative decoding, and localization in distributed and cell-free networks. Unlike centralized networks, where synchronization is generally…
Time synchronization of devices in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks is one of the challenging problems and a pre-requisite for the design of low-latency applications. Although many existing solutions have tried to address this problem,…
Modern mobile and stationary devices are equipped with multiple network interfaces aiming to provide wireless and wireline connectivity either in a local LAN or the Internet. Multipath TCP (MPTCP) protocol has been developed on top of…
The integrity of time in distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices is crucial for reliable operation in energy cyber-physical systems, such as smart grids and microgrids. However, IoT systems are vulnerable to clock drift,…
Algorithms for the synchronisation of clocks across networks are both common and important within distributed systems. We here address not only the formal modelling of these algorithms, but also the formal verification of their behaviour.…
In a state-update protocol for a system of $L$ asynchronous parallel processes that communicate only with nearest neighbors, global desynchronization in operation times can be deduced from kinetic roughening of the corresponding…
This paper presents the first hardware implementation of bittide, a decentralized clock synchronization mechanism for achieving logical synchrony in distributed systems. We detail the design and implementation of an 8-node bittide network…
We describe protocols for passive atomic clocks based on quantum interrogation of the atoms. Unlike previous techniques, our protocols are adaptive and take advantage of prior information about the clock's state. To reduce deviations from…
We define the ``Pulse Synchronization'' problem that requires nodes to achieve tight synchronization of regular pulse events, in the settings of distributed computing systems. Pulse-coupled synchronization is a phenomenon displayed by a…
We present an enhanced entangled quantum clock protocol that incorporates a quantum phase estimation algorithm to directly estimate proper-time differences as an unknown phase. By employing highly entangled multi-clock states, the…
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a promising industrial Internet of Things technology. Clock synchronization provides unified time reference, which is critical to the deterministic communication of TSN. However, changes in internal…
The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…
We demonstrate picosecond-level synchronization of two actively mode-locked Ti:Sapphire lasers via the White Rabbit Precision Time Protocol (WR-PTP), tested over 120 km of deployed optical fiber. This synchronization capability, in…