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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

Average consensus theory is intensely popular for building time synchronization in wireless sensor network (WSN). However, the average consensus-based time synchronization algorithm is based on iteration that pose challenges for efficiency,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Fanrong Shi , Xianguo Tuo , Lili Ran , Zhenwen Ren , Simon X. Yang

Clock synchronization is necessary for communication and distributed computing tasks. Previous schemes based on photon timing correlations use pulsed light or photon pairs for their strong timing correlations. In this work, we demonstrate…

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

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

Clock synchronization is a widely discussed topic in the engineering literature. Ensuring that individual clocks are closely aligned is important in network systems, since the correct timing of various events in a network is usually…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Timothy Anglea , Yongqiang Wang

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

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

To reap the promised gain achieved by distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-enhanced communications in a wireless network, timing synchronization among these metasurfaces is an essential prerequisite in practice. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yaqiong Zhao , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You , Ning Wang , Huan Sun

Time synchronization in any distributed network can be achieved by using application layer protocols for time correction. Time synchronization method proposed in this article uses symbol timing recovery at the physical layer to correct…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-01 S. M. Usman Hashmi , Muntazir Hussain , Fahad Bin Muslim , Kashif Inayat , Seong Oun Hwang

In this paper, we analyze the two-node joint clock synchronization and ranging problem. We focus on the case of nodes that employ time-to-digital converters to determine the range between them precisely. This specific design choice leads to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Pol del Aguila Pla , Lissy Pellaco , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel , Joakim Jaldén

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

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

Wireless sensor networks are conceived to monitor a certain application or physical phenomena and are supposed to function for several years without any human intervention for maintenance. Thus, the main issue in sensor networks is often to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-28 Gerard Chalhoub , François Delobel , Michel Misson

The paper addresses state estimation for clock synchronization in the presence of factors affecting the quality of synchronization. Examples are temperature variations and delay asymmetry. These working conditions make synchronization a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Maurizio Mongelli , Stefano Scanzio

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

We present a synchronization algorithm to let nodes in a sensor network simultaneously execute a task at a given point in time. In contrast to other time synchronization algorithms we do not provide a global time basis that is shared on all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-30 Tobias Baumgartner , Sandor P. Fekete , Winfried Hellmann , Alexander Kroeller

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) has been identified as a pillar usage scenario for the impending 6G era. Bi-static sensing, a major type of sensing in ISAC, is promising to expedite ISAC in the near future, as it requires…

A fully-asynchronous network with one target sensor and a few anchors (nodes with known locations) is considered. Localization and synchronization are traditionally treated as two separate problems. In this paper, localization and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

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