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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

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

This paper presents a distributed hybrid algorithm that synchronizes the time and rate of a set of clocks connected over a network. Clock measurements of the nodes are given at aperiodic time instants and the controller at each node uses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Marcello Guarro , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

Phase, time, and frequency coordination are crucial for the coherent operation of distributed antenna arrays. This paper demonstrates a high accuracy decentralized time synchronization method for arrays with dynamic connectivity. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Naim Shandi , Jason M. Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Distributed antenna arrays have been proposed for many applications ranging from space-based observatories to automated vehicles. Achieving good performance in distributed antenna systems requires stringent synchronization at the wavelength…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Jason M. Merlo , Serge R. Mghabghab , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

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

Industrial control systems present numerous challenges from the communication systems perspective: clock synchronization, deterministic behavior, low latency, high reliability, flexibility, and scalability. These challenges are mostly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Inaki Val , Oscar Seijo , Raul Torrego , Armando Astarloa

Clock synchronization is ubiquitous in wireless systems for communication, sensing and control. In this paper we design a scalable system in which an indefinite number of passively receiving wireless units can synchronize to a single master…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Dave Zachariah , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel , Petre Stoica

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 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

In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm for joint clock skew and offset estimation in wireless sensor networks based on belief propagation. In the proposed algorithm, each node can estimate its clock skew and offset in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Jian Du , Yik-Chung Wu

A decentralized approach for joint frequency and phase synchronization in distributed antenna arrays is presented. The nodes in the array share their frequencies and phases with their neighboring nodes to align these parameters across the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Mohammed Rashid , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

One of the major challenges in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is the mitigation of collisions due to simultaneous transmissions by multiple nodes over a common channel which are located in a proximity. TDMA-based channel access provides…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ashutosh Bhatia , R. C. Hansdah

In this paper, we consider asynchronous federated learning (FL) over time-division multiple access (TDMA)-based communication networks. Considering TDMA for transmitting local updates can introduce significant delays to conventional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jaeyoung Song , Jun-Pyo Hong

The existing distributed TDMA-scheduling techniques can be classified as either static or dynamic. The primary purpose of static TDMA-scheduling algorithms is to improve the channel utilization by generating a schedule of shorter length.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Ashutosh Bhatia , R. C. Hansdah

In this paper, we derive the optimal centralized dynamic-time-division-duplex (D-TDD) scheme for a wireless network comprised of $K$ full-duplex nodes impaired by self-interference and additive white Gaussian noise. As a special case, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Mohsen Mohammadkhani Razlighi , Nikola Zlatanov , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Petar Popovski

In large-scale resource-constrained wireless networks, such as those prevalent in the Internet of Things (IoT), efficient communication scheduling remains a critical challenge. Among the various approaches, Time Division Multiple Access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Hicham Lakhlef , Mohamed Ali Zormati , Khaled Abid , Toufik Ahmed

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

Millimeter wave (mmW) bands between 30 and 300 GHz have attracted considerable attention for next-generation cellular networks due to vast quantities of available spectrum and the possibility of very high-dimensional antenna ar-rays.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Russell Ford , Felipe Gomez-Cuba , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

Future wireless networks will utilize extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) over high-frequency bands, which, however, produce near-field spherical wavefronts and spatial wideband effects. To exploit and mitigate these, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiasi Zhou , Chintha Tellambura