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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

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

Biomolecular machines transduce free energy from one form to another to fulfill many important roles inside cells, with dissipation required to achieve directed progress. We investigate how to break time-reversal symmetry at a given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-03 Arshia Zarrin , David A. Sivak , Aidan I. Brown

Synchronization and ranging in internet of things (IoT) networks are challenging due to the narrowband nature of signals used for communication between IoT nodes. Recently, several estimators for range estimation using phase difference of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Tarik Kazaz , Mario Coutino , Gerard J. M. Janssen , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

This work presents a fully-digital high-accuracy real-time calibration procedure for frequency and time alignment of open-loop wirelessly coordinated coherent distributed antenna array (CDA) modems, enabling radio frequency (RF) phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Jason M. Merlo , Samuel Wagner , John Lancaster , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Future wireless communications systems are expected to operate at bands above 100GHz. The high energy consumption of analog-to-digital converters, due to their high resolution represents a bottleneck for future wireless communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 D. Melo , L. Landau , R. de Lamare

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

Cross-correlation is a popular signal processing technique used in numerous location tracking systems for obtaining reliable range information. However, its efficient design and practical implementation has not yet been achieved on mote…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Prasant Misra , Wen Hu , Mingrui Yang , Marco Duarte , Sanjay Jha

Time-sensitive wireless networks are an important enabling building block for many emerging industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Quick prototyping and evaluation of time-sensitive wireless technologies are desirable for R&D…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jiaxin Liang , He Chen , Soung Chang Liew

Synchronization is a key functionality in wireless network, enabling a wide variety of services. We consider a Bayesian inference framework whereby network nodes can achieve phase and skew synchronization in a fully distributed way. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Bernhard Etzlinger , Henk Wymeersch , Andreas Springer

Wireless communications in the terahertz band have been recently proposed as complement to conventional wired interconnects within computing packages. Such environments are typically highly reverberant, hence showing long channel impulse…

Wireless time synchronization of mobile devices is a key enabler for numerous Industry 4.0 applications, such as coordinated and synchronized tasks or the generation of high-precision timestamps for machine learning or artificial…

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

Free space optical (FSO) communication channels are typically used to transmit high-speed data between sites over the air. Here we repurpose an FSO digital communication system and use it directly for two-way time transfer. We demonstrate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-22 Isaac Khader , Hugo Bergeron , Laura C. Sinclair , William C. Swann , Nathan R. Newbury , Jean-Daniel Deschênes

This dissertation is a study on the design and analysis of novel, optimal routing and rate control algorithms in wireless, mobile communication networks. Congestion control and routing algorithms upto now have been designed and optimized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-20 Jung Ryu

We simultaneously achieve clock synchronisation, clock-synchronised data transmission and ultra-low noise RF carrier generation by combining clock phase caching and frequency comb transmission in radio access networks (RAN). We demonstrate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Kari Aaron Clark , Zun Htay , Zichuan Zhou , Amany Kassem , Andrea Pertoldi , Benjamin Rudin , Florian Emaury , Izzat Darwazeh , Zhixin Liu

Clock synchronization is critical for maintaining low error rates in quantum key distribution. Here, we describe how a frequency mismatch between the transmitter and receiver clocks affects the quantum bit error rate in quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Loïc Millet , Boris Korzh , Rob Thew , Gianluca Boso

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

This paper proposes and experimentally evaluates a joint clock recovery (CR) and equalization architecture tailored for high-speed sub-terahertz (sub-THz) wireless communication links. Specifically, a Baud-spaced digital receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Pietro Savazzi , Anna Vizziello , Sherif Badran , Josep M. Jornet

In this paper we analyze the trade-offs between energy and throughput for links in a wireless sensor network. Our application of interest is one in which a number of low-powered sensors need to wirelessly communicate their measurements to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Guanghua Zhu , Linda M. Davis , Terence Chan

The problem of time synchronization in dense wireless networks is considered. Well established synchronization techniques suffer from an inherent scalability problem in that synchronization errors grow with an increasing number of hops…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 An-swol Hu , Sergio D. Servetto