Minimal cost clock synchronization using a sender-receiver protocol in wireless sensornets

Qasim M. Chaudhari*, Erchin Serpedin, Khalid Qaraqe

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Abstract

Recent years have seen a tremendous growth in the development of small sensing devices capable of data processing and wireless communication through their embedded processors and radios.Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are ad hoc networks consisting of such devices gaining importance due to their emerging applications. In WSNs, there is a need for a common notion of time among the wireless sensor nodes to accomplish major tasks such as data fusion. For the inactive nodes listening to a sender-receiver two-way timing message exchange between two nodes in an exponential link delay model, this paper derives the Maximum Likelihood Estimate (MLE) for the clock offsets of such silent nodes. Since no data transmission is involved on the part of the inactive nodes, this clock synchronization is very attractive for the low power demanding WSN scenario due to reduced power consumption.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2008, SPECTS 2008, Part of the 2008 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim 2008
PublisherThe Society for Modeling and Simulation International
Pages159-164
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781622763566
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2008, SPECTS 2008, Part of the 2008 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim 2008 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Duration: 16 Jun 200819 Jun 2008

Publication series

NameInternational Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2008, SPECTS 2008, Part of the 2008 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim 2008

Conference

ConferenceInternational Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2008, SPECTS 2008, Part of the 2008 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
Period16/06/0819/06/08

Keywords

  • Clock synchronization
  • Maximum likelihood estimation
  • Wireless sensor networks

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