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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

Clock synchronization is a necessary component in modern distributed systems, especially Wirless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Despite the great effort and the numerous improvements, the existing synchronization schemes do not yet address the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Federico Terraneo , Alberto Leva , Silvano Seva , Martina Maggio , Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos

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

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

We present a data generation framework designed to simulate spoofing attacks and randomly place attack scenarios worldwide. We apply deep neural network-based models for spoofing detection, utilizing Long Short-Term Memory networks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jan Zelinka , Oliver Kost , Marek Hrúz

GNSSs are vulnerable to attacks of two kinds: jamming (i.e. denying access to the signal) and spoofing (i.e. impersonating a legitimate satellite). These attacks have been extensively studied, and we have a myriad of countermeasures to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Sergio Angulo Cosín , Javier Junquera-Sánchez , Carlos Hernando-Ramiro , José-Antonio Gómez-Sánchez

The rapid development of technology has led to an increase in the number of devices that rely on position, velocity, and time (PVT) information to perform their functions. As such, the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Leatile Marata , Juhani Sankari , Eslam Eldeeb , Mikko Valkama , Elena Simona Lohan

This paper presents a novel time synchronization attack (TSA) model for the Global Positioning System (GPS) based on clock data behavior changes in a higher-order derivative domain. Further, the time synchronization attack rejection and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Erick Schmidt , Junhwan Lee , Nikolaos Gatsis , David Akopian

The operation of critical infrastructures such as the electrical power grid, cellphone towers, and financial institutions relies on precise timing provided by stationary GPS receivers. These GPS devices are vulnerable to a type of spoofing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Junhwan Lee , Ahmad F. Taha , Nikolaos Gatsis , David Akopian

Intentional interference, and in particular GNSS spoofing, is currently one of the most significant concerns of the Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) community. With the adoption of Open Service Navigation Message Authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Gonzalo Seco-Granados , David Gomez-Casco , Jose A. Lopez-Salcedo , Ignacio Fernandez-Hernandez

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

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is increasingly vulnerable to radio frequency interference (RFI), including jamming and spoofing, which threaten the integrity of navigation and timing services. This paper presents a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Argyris Kriezis , Yu-Hsuan Chen , Dennis Akos , Sherman Lo , Todd Walter

We demonstrate a point-to-point clock synchronization protocol based on bidirectionally exchanging photons produced in spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC). The technique exploits tight timing correlations between photon pairs to…

Clock synchronization has become essential to modern societies since many critical infrastructures depend on a precise notion of time. This paper analyzes security aspects of high-precision clock synchronization protocols, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Robert Annessi , Joachim Fabini , Felix Iglesias , Tanja Zseby

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

We propose an approach to assess the synchronization of rigidly mounted sensors based on their rotational motion. Using function similarity measures combined with a sliding window approach, our approach is capable of estimating time-varying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Thomas Wodtko , Alexander Scheible , Michael Buchholz

This paper establishes a fundamental theory of secure clock synchronization. Accurate clock synchronization is the backbone of systems managing power distribution, financial transactions, telecommunication operations, database services,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Lakshay Narula , Todd Humphreys

Recent studies exploited external periodic synchronous signals to synchronize a pair of network nodes to address a threat of delaying the communications between the nodes. However, the sensing-based synchronization may yield faults due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Rui Tan , Linshan Jiang , Arvind Easwaran , Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram

GNSS are indispensable for various applications, but they are vulnerable to spoofing attacks. The original receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) was not designed for securing GNSS. In this context, RAIM was extended with wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Wenjie Liu , Panos Papadimitratos

A novel time synchronization attack (TSA) on wide area monitoring systems in smart grid has been identified in the first part of this paper. A cross layer detection mechanism is proposed to combat TSA in part II of this paper. In the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Zhenghao Zhang , Matthew Trinkle , Aleksandar D. Dimitrovski , Husheng Li