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The Precision Time Protocol (PTP), standardized as IEEE 1588, provides sub-microsecond synchronization across distributed systems and underpins critical infrastructure in telecommunications, finance, power systems, and industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Muhammad Abdullah Soomro , Fatima Muhammad Anwar

Admission control schemes and scheduling algorithms are designed to offer QoS services in 802.16/802.16e networks and a number of studies have investigated these issues. But the channel condition and priority of traffic classes are very…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-25 R Murali Prasad , P. Satish Kumar

The vast majority of hardware architectures use a carefully timed reference signal to clock their computational logic. However, standard distribution solutions are not fault-tolerant. In this work, we present a simple grid structure as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Christoph Lenzen , Ben Wiederhake

A clock skew compensation algorithm was recently proposed based on the extension of Bresenham's line drawing algorithm (Kim and Kang, IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 902--906, Apr. 2022), which takes into account the discrete nature…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Seungyeop Kang , Kyeong Soo Kim

The IEEE 802.11 backoff algorithm is very important for controlling system throughput over contentionbased wireless networks. For this reason, there are many studies on wireless network performance focus on developing backoff algorithms.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Hatm Alkadeki , Xingang Wang , Michael Odetayo

In TSCH, which is a MAC mechanism set of the IEEE 802.15.4e amendment, calculation, construction, and maintenance of the packet transmission schedules are not defined. Moreover, to ensure optimal throughput, most of the existing scheduling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Nastooh Taheri Javan , Masoud Sabaei , Vesal Hakami

Gradient Clock Synchronization (GCS) is the task of minimizing the \emph{local skew,} i.e., the clock offset between neighboring clocks, in a larger network. While asymptotically optimal bounds are known, from a practical perspective they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Christoph Lenzen

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

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 2013-08-21 Enrique Mallada , Xiaoqiao Meng , Michel Hack , Li Zhang , Ao Tang

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

Precise localization is one key element of the Internet of Things (IoT). Especially concepts for position estimation when Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are unavailable have moved into the focus. One crucial component for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Thomas Maul , Sebastian Klob , Joerg Robert

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

The paper addresses the problem of time offset synchronization in the presence of temperature variations, which lead to a non-Gaussian environment. In this context, regular Kalman filtering reveals to be suboptimal. A functional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Maurizio Mongelli , Stefano Scanzio

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

The generalization of the maximum-likelihood-like estimator for clock skew by Leng and Wu in the above paper is erroneous because the correlation of the noise components in the model is not taken into account in the derivation of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Kyeong Soo Kim

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

MAC layer protocol design in a WSN is crucial due to the limitations on processing capacities and power of wireless sensors. The latest version of the IEEE 802.15.4, referenced to as IEEE 802.15.4e, was released by IEEE and outlines the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Taieb Hamza , Georges Kaddoum

The most important standard in wireless local area networks is IEEE 802.11. This is why much of the research work for the enhancement of wireless network is usually based on the behavior of IEEE 802.11 protocol. However, some of the ways in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Hatm Alkadeki , Xingang Wang , Michael Odetayo

Precise time synchronization is expected to play a key role in emerging distributed and real-time applications such as the smart grid and Internet of Things (IoT) based applications. The Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is currently viewed as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Martin Levesque , David Tipper

The bistatic Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is poised to become a key application for next generation communication networks (e.g., B5G/6G), providing simultaneous sensing and communication services with minimal changes to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Yi Wang , Keke Zu , Luping Xiang , Martin Haardt , Kun Yang