A new approach for time synchronization in wireless sensor networks: Pairwise broadcast synchronization

Kyoung Lae Noh, Erchin Serpedin*, Khalid Qaraqe

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This letter proposes an energy-efficient clock synchronization scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) based on a novel time synchronization approach. Within the proposed synchronization approach, a subset of sensor nodes are synchronized by overhearing the timing message exchanges of a pair of sensor nodes. Therefore, a group of sensor nodes can be synchronized without sending any extra messages. This paper brings two main contributions: 1. Development of a novel synchronization approach which can be partially or fully applied for implementation of new synchronization protocols and for improving the performance of existing time synchronization protocols. 2. Design of a time synchronization scheme which significantly reduces the overall network-wide energy consumption without incurring any loss of synchronization accuracy compared to other well-known schemes.

Original languageEnglish
Article number4626304
Pages (from-to)3318-3322
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume7
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Clock synchronization
  • Time synchronization
  • Wireless sensor networks

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