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Monitoring the optical phase change in a fiber enables a wide range of applications where fast phase variations are induced by acoustic signals or vibrations in general. However, the quality of the estimated fiber response strongly depends…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-23 Christian Dorize , Elie Awwad

Late visions and trends for the future sixth Generation (6G) of wireless communications advocate, among other technologies, towards the deployment of network nodes with extreme numbers of antennas and up to terahertz frequencies, as means…

We demonstrate the capability of accurate time transfer using optical fibers over long distances utilizing a dark fiber and hardware which is usually employed in two-way satellite time and frequency transfer (TWSTFT). Our time transfer…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-25 M. Rost , D. Piester , W. Yang , T. Feldmann , T. Wübbena , A. Bauch

Optical fiber links have demonstrated their ability to transfer the ultra-stable clock signals. In this paper we propose and demonstrate a new scheme to transfer both time and radio frequency with the same wavelength based on coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Jialiang Wang , Chaolei Yue , Yueli Xi , Yanguang Sun , Nan Cheng , Fei Yang , Mingyu Jiang , Jianfeng Sun , Youzhen Gui , Haiwen Cai

This paper introduces a new two-dimensional modulation technique called Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation. OTFS has the novel and important feature of being designed in the delay-Doppler domain. When coupled with a suitable…

Distributed wireless clock synchronization is essential for aligning the clocks of distributed transceivers in support of joint transmission and reception techniques. One recently explored method involves synchronizing distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Kumar Sai Bondada , Hiten Kothari , Yibin Liang , Daniel J. Jakubisin , R. Michael Buehrer

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

We describe a fiber-optic solution for simultaneous distribution of all signals generated at todays most advanced time and frequency laboratories, i.e. an ultrastable optical reference frequency derived from an optical atomic clock, a radio…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 P. Krehlik , H. Schnatz , L. Sliwczynski

Owing to the characteristics of ultra-low loss and anti-electromagnetic interference, using optical fiber to deliver time and frequency signal has been a preferred choice for high precise clock dissemination and comparison. As a brilliant…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-23 Wei Chen , Jialiang Wang , Qin Liu , Nan Cheng , Zitong Feng , Fei Yang , Youzhen Gui , Haiwen Cai

Fiber-delay measurement is one of the key fundamental technologies in numerous fields. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a high-precision and concise optical time delay measurement system based on the technique of linear…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-19 Yufei Zhang , Ziyang Chen , Dongrui Yu , Jialin Niu , Xing Chen , Hong Guo

In this paper phase of a signal has been viewed from a different angle. According to this view a signal can have countably infinitely many phases, one associated with each Fourier component. In other words each frequency has a phase…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2008-04-25 Kaushik Majumdar

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

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

Fourier-transform spectroscopy (FTS) has been widely used as a standard analytical technique over the past half-century. FTS is a simple and robust autocorrelation-based technique that is compatible with both temporally coherent and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-21 Kazuki Hashimoto , Takuro Ideguchi

High-precision remote clock synchronization is crucial for many classical and quantum network applications. Evaluating options for space-Earth links, we find that traditional solutions may not produce the desired synchronization for low…

We have developed an optical simulator to test optical two-way time-frequency transfer (O-TWTFT) at the femtosecond level capable of simulating relative motion between two linked optical clock nodes up to Mach 1.8 with no moving parts. The…

The focus of this paper is the estimation of a delay between two signals. Such a problem is common in signal processing and particularly challenging when the delay is non-stationary in nature. Our proposed solution is based on an all-pass…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Beth Jelfs , Shuai Sun , Kamran Ghorbani , Christopher Gilliam

We present the multi-hop extensions of the recently proposed energy-efficient time synchronization scheme for wireless sensor networks, which is based on the asynchronous source clock frequency recovery and reversed two-way message…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Yangyu Wang , Kyeong Soo Kim

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation was proposed to tackle the destructive Doppler effects in wireless communications, with potential applications to many other areas. In this paper, we investigate its application to radar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 P. Raviteja , Khoa T. Phan , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

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