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PODC
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Optimal gradient clock synchronization in dynamic networks
We study the problem of clock synchronization in highly dynamic networks, where communication links can appear or disappear at any time. The nodes in the network are equipped with...
Fabian Kuhn, Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher, Rote...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
NTI: A Network Time Interface M-Module for High-Accuracy Clock-Synchronization
This paper? provides a description of our Network Time Interface M-Module NTI supporting high-accuracy external clock synchronization by hardware. The NTI is built around our custo...
Martin Horauer, Ulrich Schmid, Klaus Schossmaier
RTAS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Timing Constraint Remapping to Avoid Time Discontinuities in Distributed Real-Time Systems
In this paper we propose a dynamic constraint transformation technique for ensuring timing requirements in a distributed real-time system possessing periodically synchronized dist...
Minsoo Ryu, Jungkeun Park, Seongsoo Hong
FM
2009
Springer
163views Formal Methods» more  FM 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Analysis of a Clock Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
We study a clock synchronization protocol for the Chess WSN. First, we model the protocol as a network of timed automata and verify various instances using the Uppaal model checker...
Faranak Heidarian, Julien Schmaltz, Frits W. Vaand...
SASN
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
SECTOR: secure tracking of node encounters in multi-hop wireless networks
In this paper we present SECTOR, a set of mechanisms for the secure verification of the time of encounters between nodes in multi-hop wireless networks. This information can be u...
Srdjan Capkun, Levente Buttyán, Jean-Pierre...
ECRTS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Clock Synchronization for Embedded Distributed Multi-Cluster Systems
When time-triggered (TT) systems are to be deployed for large embedded real-time (RT) control systems in cars and airplanes, one way to overcome bandwidth limitations and achieve ...
Michael Paulitsch, Wilfried Steiner
LATIN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Global Synchronization in Sensornets
Time synchronization is necessary in many distributed systems, but achieving synchronization in sensornets, which combine stringent precision requirements with severe resource con...
Jeremy Elson, Richard M. Karp, Christos H. Papadim...
IPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Adaptive clock synchronization in sensor networks
Recent advances in technology have made low cost, low power wireless sensors a reality. Clock synchronization is an important service in any distributed system, including sensor n...
Santashil PalChaudhuri, Amit Kumar Saha, David B. ...
PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Gradient clock synchronization
We introduce the distributed gradient clock synchronization problem. As in traditional distributed clock synchronization, we consider a network of nodes equipped with hardware clo...
Rui Fan, Nancy A. Lynch
FSKD
2005
Springer
143views Fuzzy Logic» more  FSKD 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
Energy Efficient Dynamic Cluster Based Clock Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Network
Core operations (e.g. TDMA scheduler, synchronized sleep period, data aggregation) of many proposed protocols for different layer of sensor network necessitate clock synchronizatio...
Md. Mamun-Or-Rashid, Choong Seon Hong, Jinsung Cho