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Clock synchronization is highly desirable in distributed systems, including many applications in the Internet of Things and Humans (IoTH). It improves the efficiency, modularity and scalability of the system, and optimizes use of event…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Sabarish Sridhar , Prasant Misra , Gurinder Singh Gill , Jay Warrior

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

Massive co-located devices require new paradigms to allow proper network connectivity. Internet of things (IoT) is the paradigm that offers a solution for the inter-connectivity of devices, but in dense IoT networks time synchronization is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Maria Antonieta Alvarez , Umberto Spagnolini

We propose an approach for collective enhancement of precision for remotely located optical lattice clocks and a way of generation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen state of remote clocks. Close to Heisenberg scaling of the clock precision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Eugene S. Polzik , Jun Ye

Populations of flashing fireflies, claps of applauding audience, cells of cardiac and circadian pacemakers reach synchrony via event-triggered interactions, referred to as pulse couplings. Synchronization via pulse coupling is widely used…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Anton V. Proskurnikov , Ming Cao

Motivated by the emerging delay-sensitive applications of the Internet of Things (IoT), there has been a resurgence of interest in developing medium access control (MAC) protocols in a time-slotted framework. The resource-constrained,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shivam Vinayak Vatsa , Avi Mohan , Anurag Kumar

For reaching dependable high-precision clock synchronization (CS) upon IoT networks, the distributed CS paradigm adopted in ultra-high reliable systems and the master-slave CS paradigm adopted in high-performance but unreliable systems are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Shaolin Yu , Jihong Zhu , Jiali Yang , Wei Lu

Integration of RIS in radio access networks requires signaling between edge units and the RIS microcontroller (MC). Unfortunately, in several practical scenarios, the signaling latency is higher than the communication channel coherence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Evangelos Koutsonas , Xiaonan Mu , Nan Qi , Stylianos Trevlakis , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos

Design of clock synchronization for networked nodes faces a fundamental trade-off between synchronization accuracy and universality for heterogeneous platforms, because a high synchronization accuracy generally requires platform-dependent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Zhenyu Yan , Yang Li , Rui Tan , Jun Huang

Digital single-flux quantum (SFQ) technology promises to meet the demands of ultra low power and high speed computing needed for future exascale supercomputing platforms. However, clocking SFQ logic circuits remains a challenge due to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-10 Gourav Datta , Shidie Lin , Peter A. Beerel

The next generation of space-based networks will contain optical clocks embedded within satellites. To fully realize the capabilities of such clocks, high-precision clock synchronization across the networks will be necessary. Current…

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) are envisioned to be an integral part of future wireless networks, especially when operating at the millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) frequency bands. However, establishing wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Nir Shlezinger , Fan Liu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Stefano Buzzi , Yonina C. Eldar

A protocol for synchronizing distant clocks is proposed that does not rely on the arrival times of the signals which are exchanged, and an optical implementation based on coherent-state pulses is described. This protocol is not limited by…

The management of timing constraints in a real-time operating system (RTOS) is usually realized through a global tick counter. This counter acts as the foundational time unit for all tasks in the systems. In order to establish a connection…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Kay Heider , Christian Hakert , Kuan-Hsun Chen , Jian-Jia Chen

Coded caching scheme is a promising technique to migrate the network burden in peak hours, which attains more prominent gains than the uncoded caching. The coded caching scheme can be classified into two types, namely, the centralized and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Lei Zheng , Qifa Yan , Qingchun Chen , Xiaohu Tang

In this paper, we dynamically select the transmission rate and design wireless network coding to improve the quality of services such as delay for time critical applications. In a network coded system, with low transmission rate and hence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xiumin Wang , Chau Yuen , Yinlong Xu

With new frequency bands opening up, emerging wireless IoT devices are capitalizing on an increasingly divergent range of frequencies. However, existing coverage provisioning practice is often tied to specific standards and frequencies.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ruichun Ma , R. Ivan Zelaya , Wenjun Hu

Distributed tracing has become an essential technique for debugging and troubleshooting modern microservice-based applications, enabling software engineers to detect performance bottlenecks, identify failures, and gain insights into system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Linh-An Phan , MingXue Wang , Guangyu Wu , Wang Dawei , Chen Liqun , Li Jin

To mitigate spoofing attacks targeting global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers, one promising method is to rely on alternative time sources, such as network-based synchronization, in order to detect clock offset discrepancies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-23 M. Spanghero , P. Papadimitratos

This paper considers a wireless network where multiple flows are delivering status updates about their respective information sources. An end user aims to make accurate real-time estimations about the status of each information source using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Daojing Guo , I-Hong Hou