Paper Info
Title
A New Distributed Approach for Achieving Clock Synchronization in Heterogeneous Networks
Abstract
Heterogeneous networks have the potential to improve coverage, throughput, and energy efficiency of wireless networks through the use of specialized cellular structures, in particular femtocells and macrocells. However, to reduce interference between different cells, ensure smooth hand-offs from cell to cell, and achieve seamless operation the overall network needs to be synchronized. In this paper a new distributed clock synchronization scheme for heterogeneous networks is proposed that employs the clock drift ratio (CDR) information available at user-equipments (UEs) to achieve synchronization between non-interacting femtocells and macrocells. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can significantly reduce the clock drift between macrocells and femtocells and result in timing synchronization throughout the network without introducing significant overhead.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6133859
Global Telecommunications Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
cellular arrays,femtocellular radio,mobility management (mobile radio),radiofrequency interference,synchronisation,CDR information,cellular structure,clock drift ratio information,distributed clock synchronization,energy efficiency,heterogeneous network,noninteracting femtocell,noninteracting macrocell,smooth hand-off,timing synchronization,user-equipment,wireless network
Wireless network,Femtocell,Clock drift,Synchronization,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Clock synchronization,Heterogeneous network,Throughput
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1930-529X E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-9267-1
978-1-4244-9267-1
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hani Mehrpouyan1101.77
Steven D. Blostein232961.46
Tommy Svensson3827.95