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With the development of mobile communication and industrial internet technologies, the demand for robust absolute time synchronization based on network for diverse scenarios is significantly growing. TAP is a novel network timing method…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Chenyu Zhang , Xiangming Wen , Wei Zheng , Longdan Yu , Zhaoming Lu , Zhengying Wang

This paper examines synchronization of computer clocks connected via a data network and proposes a skewless algorithm to synchronize them. Unlike existing solutions, which either estimate and compensate the frequency difference (skew) among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Enrique Mallada , Xiaoqiao Meng , Michel Hack , Li Zhang , Ao Tang

Cryptographic signatures can be used to increase the resilience of distributed systems against adversarial attacks, by increasing the number of faulty parties that can be tolerated. While this is well-studied for consensus, it has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Christoph Lenzen , Julian Loss

Secure precision time synchronization is important for applications of Cyber-Physical Systems. However, several attacks, especially the Time Delay Attack (TDA), deteriorates the performance of time synchronization system seriously. Multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yang Li , Yujie Luo , Yichen Zhang , Ao Sun , Wei Huang , Shuai Zhang , Tao Zhang , Chuang Zhou , Li Ma , Jie Yang , Mei Wu , Heng Wang , Yan Pan , Yun Shao , Xing Chen , Ziyang Chen , Song Yu , Hong Guo , Bingjie Xu

Many critical computing applications rely on secure and dependable time which is reliably synchronized across large distributed systems. Today's time synchronization architectures are commonly based on global navigation satellite systems at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Marc Frei , Jonghoon Kwon , Seyedali Tabaeiaghdaei , Marc Wyss , Christoph Lenzen , Adrian Perrig

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

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

Clock synchronization is ubiquitous in wireless systems for communication, sensing and control. In this paper we design a scalable system in which an indefinite number of passively receiving wireless units can synchronize to a single master…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Dave Zachariah , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel , Petre Stoica

The timing system focuses on synchronizing and coordinating each subsystem according to the trigger signals. A new prototype timing slave node based on precision time protocol has been developed by using ARM STM32 platform. The proposed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Z. Zhang , B. Xiao , Z. Ji , Y. Wang , P. Wang

Achieving precise time synchronization in wireless systems is essential for both industrial applications and 5G, where sub-microsecond accuracy is required. However, since the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market is negligible…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Michael Gundall , Hans D. Schotten

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…

We consider a stochastic model of clock synchronization in a wireless network consisting of N sensors interacting with one dedicated accurate time server. For large N we find an estimate of the final time sychronization error for global and…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-04 Anatoly Manita

Internet services and applications depend critically on the availability and acc uracy of network time. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is one of the oldest core network protocols and remains the de facto mechanism for clock synchronization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Robert Beverly , Erik Rye

Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) provide pervasive accurate positioning and timing services for a large gamut of applications, from Time based One-Time Passwords (TOPT), to power grid and cellular systems. However, there can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-23 K. Zhang , M. Spanghero , P. Papadimitratos

Sharing a common clock signal among the nodes is crucial for communication in synchronized networks. This work presents a heartbeat-based synchronization scheme for body-worn nodes. The principles of this coordination technique combined…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Robin Benarrouch , Ali Moin , Flavien Solt , Antoine Frappé , Andreia Cathelin , Andreas Kaiser , Jan Rabaey

Accurate and tamper-resistant timestamps are essential for applications demanding verifiable chronological ordering, such as legal documentation and digital intellectual property protection. Classical timestamp protocols rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Ming-Yang Li , Chen-Xun Weng , Wen-Bo Liu , Mengya Zhu , Zeng-Bing Chen

In this paper, the fixed-time cluster synchronization problem for complex networks via pinning control is discussed. Fixed-time synchronization has been a hot topic in recent years, which means that the network can achieve synchronization…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Xiwei Liu , Tianping Chen

This paper concerns with the synchronization of infrastructure impoverished sensor networks under harsh conditions. It suggests three novel asynchronous, decentralized, energyefficient time synchronization protocols. The protocols require…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-06 Ramadan Abdul-Rashid , Ali Al-Shaikhi , Ahmad Masoud

This work considers load-balance control among the relays under the secure transmission protocol via relay cooperation in two-hop wireless networks without the information of both eavesdropper channels and locations. The available two-hop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Yulong Shen , Xiaohong Jiang , Jianfeng Ma

Emerging industrial applications involving robotic collaborative operations and mobile robots require a more reliable and precise wireless network for deterministic data transmission. To meet this demand, the 3rd Generation Partnership…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zixiao Wang , Zonghui Li , Xuan Qiao , Yiming Zheng , Bo Ai , Xiaoyu Song