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One-way-broadcast based flooding time synchronization algorithms are commonly used in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, the packet delay and clock drift pose challenges to accuracy, as they entail serious by-hop error accumulation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Fanrong Shi , Simon X. Yang , Xianguo Tuo , Lili Ran , Yuqing Huang

We demonstrate a wireless, decentralized time-alignment method for distributed antenna arrays and distributed wireless networks that achieves picosecond-level synchronization. Distributed antenna arrays consist of spatially separated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Naim Shandi , Jason M. Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Motivated by novel results in the theory of network synchronization, we analyze the effects of nonzero time delays in stochastic synchronization problems with linear couplings in an arbitrary network. We determine {\it analytically} the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Shahar Hod

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

Time synchronization for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been studied in recent years as a fundamental and significant research issue. Many applications based on these WSNs assume local clocks at each sensor node that need to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Surendra Rahamatkar , Dr. Ajay Agarwal

A wireless sensor network consists of light-weight, low power, small size sensor nodes. Routing in wireless sensor networks is a demanding task. This demand has led to a number of routing protocols which efficiently utilize the limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Jasmine Norman , J. Paulraj Joseph , P. Prapoorna Roja

Flow reshaping is used in time-sensitive networks (as in the context of IEEE TSN and IETF Detnet) in order to reduce burstiness inside the network and to support the computation of guaranteed latency bounds. This is performed using per-flow…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Ludovic Thomas , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

We consider the External Clock Synchronization problem in dynamic sensor networks. Initially, sensors obtain inaccurate estimations of an external time reference and subsequently collaborate in order to synchronize their internal clocks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Ofer Feinerman , Amos Korman

In this paper we propose Time Synchronized One-Time-Password scheme to provide secure wake up authentication. The main constraint of wireless sensor networks is their limited power resource that prevents us from using radio transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Anastasios Kavoukis , Salem Aljareh

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,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Nitin Shivaraman , Patrick Schuster , Saravanan Ramanathan , Arvind Easwaran , Sebastian Steinhorst

In this paper, we focus on the localization of a passive source from time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. TDOA values are computed with respect to pairs of fixed sensors that are required to be accurately time-synchronized. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Energy management is a crucial challenge in wireless sensor networks. To date, many techniques have been proposed to reduce energy consumption. Duty cycle methods reduce the energy consumption of wireless sensor networks since energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mahta Moezzi , Parsa Emamdadi

We propose an asynchronous, decentralized algorithm for consensus optimization. The algorithm runs over a network in which the agents communicate with their neighbors and perform local computation. In the proposed algorithm, each agent can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Tianyu Wu , Kun Yuan , Qing Ling , Wotao Yin , Ali H. Sayed

In this paper we propose wireless sensor network architecture with layered protocols, targeting different aspects of the awareness requirements in wireless sensor networks. Under such a unified framework, we pay special attention to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Deepali Virmani , Satbir Jain

We consider a wireless sensor network consisting of multiple nodes that are coordinated by a fusion center (FC) in order to estimate a common signal of interest. In addition to being coordinated, the sensors are also able to collaborate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-15 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, we utilize event-triggered coupling configuration to realize synchronization of linearly coupled dynamical systems. Here, the diffusion couplings are set up from the latest observations of the nodes of its neighborhood and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-02-13 Wenlian Lu , Yujuan Han , Tianping Chen

The uprising interest in multi-agent based networked system, and the numerous number of applications in the distributed control of the smart grid leads us to address the problem of time synchronization in the smart grid. Utility companies…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Imtiaz Parvez , Arif I. Sarwat , Jonathan Pinto , Zakaria Parvez , Mohammad Aqib Khandaker

We study a heterogeneous wireless sensor network (WSN) where N heterogeneous access points (APs) gather data from densely deployed sensors and transmit their sensed information to M heterogeneous fusion centers (FCs) via multi-hop wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi , Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani

Deterministic communication is required for applications of several industry verticals including manufacturing, automotive, financial, and health care, etc. These applications rely on reliable and time-synchronized delivery of information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Mahin K. Atiq , Raheeb Muzaffar

In this paper, we consider a status updating system where the transmitter sends status updates of the signal it monitors to the destination through a rate-limited link. We consider the scenario where the status of the monitored signal only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Chenghao Deng , Jing Yang , Changyong Pan