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Synchronizing clocks to measure time is a fundamental process underpinning every practical communication task from GPS to parallel computation. However, as the current protocols are based on classical communication between the sender and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Shubhayan Sarkar

The IEEE 1588 protocol has received recent interest as a means of delivering sub-microsecond level clock phase synchronization over packet-switched mobile backhaul networks. Due to the randomness of the end-to-end delays in packet networks,…

Applications · Statistics 2015-03-03 Anand Guruswamy , Rick S. Blum , Shalinee Kishore , Mark Bordogna

We consider energy-efficient time synchronization in a wireless sensor network where a head node (i.e., a gateway between wired and wireless networks and a center of data fusion) is equipped with a powerful processor and supplied power from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Kyeong Soo Kim , Sanghyuk Lee , Eng Gee Lim

Clock synchronization is a very fundamental task in distributed system. It thus makes sense to require an underlying clock synchronization mechanism to be highly fault-tolerant. A self-stabilizing algorithm seeks to attain synchronization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ariel Daliot , Danny Dolev , Hanna Parnas

Time serves as the foundation of modern society and will continue to grow in value in the future world. Unlike previous research papers, authors delve into various time sources, ranging from atomic time and GPS time to quartz time.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Wei Dai , Rui Zhang , Jinwei Liu

We demonstrate an attack on a clock synchronization protocol that attempts to detect tampering of the synchronization channel using polarization-entangled photon pairs. The protocol relies on a symmetrical channel, where propagation delays…

Accurate wireless timing synchronization has been an extremely important topic in wireless sensor networks, required in applications ranging from distributed beam forming to precision localization and navigation. However, it is very…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Marcelo Segura , S. Niranjayan , Hossein Hashemi , Andreas F. Molisch

In the Internet of Things scenarios, it is crucially important to provide low energy consumption of client devices. To address this challenge, new Wi-Fi standards introduce the Target Wake Time (TWT) mechanism. With TWT, devices transmit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Dmitry Bankov , Evgeny Khorov , Andrey Lyakhov , Ekaterina Stepanova

In [3], the authors proposed a highly efficient secure and privacy-preserving scheme for secure vehicular communications. The proposed scheme consists of four protocols: system setup, protocol for STP and STK distribution, protocol for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Lei Zhang , Chuanyan Hu , Qianhong Wu , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Bo Qin

Nonlinear parity-time (PT) symmetry in non-Hermitian wireless power transfer (WPT) systems, while attracting significant attention from both physics and engineering communities, have posed formidable theoretical and practical challenges due…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Xianglin Hao , Xiaosheng Wang , ke Yin , Sheng Ren , Chaoqiang Jiang , Jianlong Zou , Tianyu Dong , Chi Kong Tse

Phase, frequency, and time synchronization are crucial requirements for many applications, such as multi-static remote sensing and communication systems. Moreover, the synchronization solution becomes even more challenging when the nodes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-23 Juan Merlano Duncan , Liz Martinez-Marrero , Jorge Querol , Sumit Kumar , Adriano Camps , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Data communication in sensor networks can have timing constraints like end to end deadlines. If the deadlines are not met either a catastrophe can happen in hard real time systems or performance deterioration can occur in soft real time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mary Cherian , T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair

This paper proposes a novel time synchronization protocol inspired by the adaptive Newton search algorithm. The clock model of nodes are modeled as an adaptive filter and a pairwise steady state and convergence analyses are presented. A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-16 Ramadan Abdul-Rashid , Azzedine Zerguine

In typical embedded applications, the precise execution time of the program does not matter, and it is sufficient to meet a real-time deadline. However, modern applications in information security have become much more time-sensitive, due…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Pantea Kiaei , Patrick Schaumont

Secure communication mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely deployed to ensure confidentiality, authenticity and integrity of the nodes and data. Recently many WSNs applications rely on trusted communication to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-27 Yusnani Mohd Yussoff , Habibah Hashim , Mohd Dani Baba

In this article, we present a new control theoretic distributed time synchronization algorithm, named PISync, in order to synchronize sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). PISync algorithm is based on a Proportional-Integral (PI)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Kasım Sinan Yıldırım , Ruggero Carli , Luca Schenato

Parallel Transport Control Protocol (TCP) has been used to effectively utilize bandwidth for data intensive applications over high Bandwidth-Delay Product (BDP) networks. On the other hand, it has been argued that, a single-based TCP…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Mohamed A. Alrshah , Mohamed Othman

Group synchronization arises when two or more synchronization patterns coexist in a network formed of oscillators of different types, with the systems in each group synchronizing on the same time-evolution, but systems in different groups…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-21 Shirin Panahi , Francesco Sorrentino

Quantum networks, which hinge on the principles of quantum mechanics, are revolutionizing the domain of information technology. The vision for quantum networks involves the efficient distribution and utilization of quantum resources across…

The paper considers the complexity of verifying that a finite state system satisfies a number of definitions of information flow security. The systems model considered is one in which agents operate synchronously with awareness of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Franck Cassez , Ron van der Meyden , Chenyi Zhang