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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

For reaching dependable high-precision clock synchronization (CS) upon IoT networks, the distributed CS paradigm adopted in ultra-high reliable systems and the master-slave CS paradigm adopted in high-performance but unreliable systems are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Shaolin Yu , Jihong Zhu , Jiali Yang , Wei Lu

In this brief paper, a new consensus protocol based on the sign of innovations is proposed. Based on this protocol each agent only requires single-bit of information about its relative state to its neighboring agents. This is significant in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-03 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian

Recently a protocol for Quantum Clock Synchronization (QCS) of remote clocks using quantum entanglement was proposed by Jozsa et al. This method has the goal of eliminating the random noise present in classical synchronization techniques.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Burt , Chris Ekstrom , Tom Swanson

The task of implementing a supervisory controller is non-trivial, even though different theories exist that allow automatic synthesis of these controllers in the form of automata. One of the reasons for this discord is due to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Harsh Beohar , Pieter Cuijpers

Due to availability of large amount of bandwidth in the 60 GHz band and support of contention-free channel access called Service Period (SP), the IEEE 802.11ad/ay Wi-Fi standard is well suited for low latency and high data rate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Anirudha Sahoo

We present a synchronization algorithm to let nodes in a sensor network simultaneously execute a task at a given point in time. In contrast to other time synchronization algorithms we do not provide a global time basis that is shared on all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-30 Tobias Baumgartner , Sandor P. Fekete , Winfried Hellmann , Alexander Kroeller

Synchronization is an essential element in three-phase ac electric power systems. The large-scale integration of converter-interfaced resources leads to the power grid transformation from voltage-source-dominated to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Yitong Li , Timothy C. Green , Yunjie Gu

We present a robust control framework for time-critical systems in which satisfying real-time constraints robustly is of utmost importance for the safety of the system. Signal Temporal Logic (STL) provides a formal means to express a large…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Alena Rodionova , Lars Lindemann , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) on low-power microcontrollers (e.g., ARM TrustZone-M) enable isolation of Secure and Non-Secure software but still require both worlds to share resources, including interrupt controllers. In this model,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Antonio Joia Neto , Amarin Laohajirapan , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

We have introduced a mechanism for synchronizing chaotic systems by one way coupling with a variable delay that is reset at finite intervals. Here we extend this method to time delay systems and suggest a new cryptosystem based on this. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-02 G. Ambika , R. E. Amritkar

The development of precise atomic clocks has led to many scientific and technological advances that play an increasingly important role in modern society. Shared timing information constitutes a key resource for positioning and navigation…

IEEE 802.1 Time-sensitive Networking (TSN) protocols have recently been proposed to replace legacy networking technologies across different mission-critical systems (MCSs). Design, configuration, and maintenance of TSN within MCSs require…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Doğanalp Ergenç , Nurefşan Sertbaş Bülbül , Lisa Maile , Anna Arestova , Mathias Fischer

Security of model parameters and user data is critical for Transformer-based services, such as ChatGPT. While recent strides in secure two-party protocols have successfully addressed security concerns in serving Transformer models, their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Mu Yuan , Lan Zhang , Xiang-Yang Li

For tolerating Byzantine faults of both the terminal and communication components in self-stabilizing clock synchronization, the two-dimensional self-stabilizing Byzantine-fault-tolerant clock synchronization problem is investigated and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shaolin Yu , Jihong Zhu , Jiali Yang

Consensus protocols for asynchronous networks are usually complex and inefficient, leading practical systems to rely on synchronous protocols. This paper attempts to simplify asynchronous consensus by building atop a novel threshold logical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Bryan Ford

In this paper, we propose a transmission scheme that achieves information theoretic security, without making assumptions on the eavesdropper's channel. This is achieved by a transmitter that deliberately introduces synchronization errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Jason Castiglione , Aleksandar Kavcic

High-precision time synchronization for remote clocks plays an important role in fundamental science and real-life applications. However, the current time synchronization techniques have been shown to be vulnerable to sophisticated…

This paper studies the emulation-based stabilization of nonlinear networked control systems with two time scales. We address the challenge of using a single communication channel for transmitting both fast and slow variables between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Weixuan Wang , Alejandro I. Maass , Dragan Nešić , Ying Tan , Romain Postoyan , W. P. M. H. Heemels

Clock synchronization is a key function in embedded wireless systems and networks. This issue is equally important and more challenging in IoT systems nowadays, which often include heterogeneous wireless devices that follow different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Zihao Yu , Chengkun Jiang , Yuan He , Xiaolong Zheng , Xiuzhen Guo