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Chaining Clock Synchronization: An Energy-Efficient Clock Synchronization Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Chaining Clock Synchronization: An Energy-Efficient Clock Synchronization Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
— Since WSNs have restricted energy sources, the energy efficiency of a synchronization scheme is as important as the accuracy of a clock. To accomplish both the energy efficiency and the accuracy, we propose a new clock synchronization scheme called Chaining Clock Synchronization (CCS). In CCS, a subset of nodes whose transmission range cover the overall network carries out a two-way message exchange algorithm while the remaining nodes synchronize themselves by overhearing the messages. To reduce the energy consumption associated with the message exchange, CCS integrates a clock request and a clock reply into a single message. Therefore, CCS requires only a single message transmission per node for the synchronization. To increase the accuracy of the clock synchronization, we also propose a new technique called clock skew propagation to reduce the error accumulation associated with multi-hop clock synchronization schemes. According to the results from NS-2, in comparison with TPSN, C...
Sang Hoon Lee, Lynn Choi
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Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ISPAN
Authors Sang Hoon Lee, Lynn Choi
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