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To safeguard Civilian Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) external information available to the platform encompassing the GNSS receiver can be used to detect attacks. Cross-checking the GNSS-provided time against alternative multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Marco Spanghero , Panos Papadimitratos

Accurate and robust vehicle localization in highly urbanized areas is challenging. Sensors are often corrupted in those complicated and large-scale environments. This paper introduces GNSS-FGO, an online and global trajectory estimator that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Haoming Zhang , Chih-Chun Chen , Heike Vallery , Timothy D. Barfoot

Civilian Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) vulnerabilities are a threat to a wide gamut of critical systems. GNSS receivers, as part of the encompassing platform, can leverage external information to detect GNSS attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Marco Spanghero , Panos Papadimitratos

A satellite-based scheme to perform clock synchronization between ground stations spread across the globe using quantum resources was proposed in [Phys. Rev. A 107, 022615 (2023)], based on the quantum clock synchronization (QCS) protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Stav Haldar , Ivan Agullo , James E. Troupe

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are a widely used technology for positioning and navigation. GNSS positioning relies on pseudorange measurements from satellites to receivers. A pseudorange is the apparent distance between two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Colin Cros , Pierre-Olivier Amblard , Christophe Prieur , Jean-François Da Rocha

State-of-the-art atomic clocks are based on the precise detection of the energy difference between two atomic levels, measured as a quantum phase accumulated in a given time interval. Optical-lattice clocks (OLCs) now operate at or near the…

The algorithm of the ensemble pulsar time scale (PT$_{\rm ens}$) based on the optimal Wiener filtration method has been proposed. This algorithm allows the separation of the contributions to the post-fit pulsar timing residuals of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-20 Alexander E. Rodin

Precise synchronization is essential in various technical disciplines, being especially challenging in mobile scenarios. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art global navigation satellite system (GNSS) disciplined oscillators (GNSSDOs) are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Maximilian Engelhardt , Carsten Andrich , Daniel Stanko , Alexander Ihlow , Markus Landmann

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a promising industrial Internet of Things technology. Clock synchronization provides unified time reference, which is critical to the deterministic communication of TSN. However, changes in internal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Yafei Sun , Qimin Xu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

General relativity predicts that two counter-orbiting clocks around a spinning mass differ in the time required to complete the same orbit. The difference in these two values for the orbital period is generally referred to as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-26 Kaye Jiale Li , Kinwah Wu , Ziri Younsi , Joana Teixeira , Dinesh Singh

Anomaly detection in time series data, to identify points that deviate from normal behaviour, is a common problem in various domains such as manufacturing, medical imaging, and cybersecurity. Recently, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Md Abul Bashar , Richi Nayak

Atomic clocks have recently reached a fractional timing precision of $<10^{-18}$. We point out that an array of atomic clocks, distributed along the Earth's orbit around the Sun, will have the sensitivity needed to detect the time dilation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-29 Abraham Loeb , Dan Maoz

A low-cost, stand-alone Global-Positioning-System-time-synchronized data acquisition system is described. The constructed prototype allows recoding up to four analog signals with a 16-bit resolution in variable ranges and a maximum sampling…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 Przemysław Włodarczyk , Szymon Pustelny , Dmitry Budker , Marcin Lipiński

Clock synchronization has become a key design objective in wireless networks for its essential importance in many applications. However, as the wireless link is prone to random network delays due to unreliable channel conditions, it is in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Osama Elnahas , Zhi Quan

This paper presents a novel real-time tracking system capable of improving body pose estimation algorithms in distributed camera networks. The first stage of our approach introduces a linear Kalman filter operating at the body joints level,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Alessandro Malaguti , Marco Carraro , Mattia Guidolin , Luca Tagliapietra , Emanuele Menegatti , Stefano Ghidoni

Gradient clock synchronization (GCS) algorithms minimize the worst-case clock offset between the nodes in a distributed network of diameter $D$ and size $n$. They achieve optimal offsets of $\Theta(\log D)$ locally, i.e. between adjacent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Christoph Lenzen , Shreyas Srinivas

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

A method to synchronise, at the sub-nanosecond level, clocks used for neutrino time-of-flight measurements is proposed. Clocks situated near the neutrino source and target are compared with a moveable clock that is transported between them.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 J. H. Field

In this paper, we present a generalized Japan Standard Time algorithm (JST-algo) for higher-order atomic clock ensembles and mathematically clarify the relations of the (generalized) JST-algo and the conventional Kalman filtering algorithm…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Yuyue Yan , Takahiro Kawaguchi , Yuichiro Yano , Yuko Hanado , Takayuki Ishizaki

Continuously monitored atomic spin-ensembles allow, in principle, for real-time sensing of external magnetic fields beyond classical limits. Within the linear-Gaussian regime, thanks to the phenomenon of measurement-induced spin-squeezing,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Julia Amoros-Binefa , Jan Kolodynski