Paper Info
Title
Enhanced precision time synchronization for wireless sensor networks.
Abstract
Time synchronization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a fundamental issue for the coordination of distributed entities and events. Nondeterministic latency, which may decrease the accuracy and precision of time synchronization can occur at any point in the network layers. Specially, random back-off by channel contention leads to a large uncertainty. In order to reduce the large nondeterministic uncertainty from channel contention, we propose an enhanced precision time synchronization protocol in this paper. The proposed method reduces the traffic needed for the synchronization procedure by selectively forwarding the packet. Furthermore, the time difference between sensor nodes increases as time advances because of the use of a clock source with a cheap crystal oscillator. In addition, we provide a means to maintain accurate time by adopting hardware-assisted time stamp and drift correction. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, for which sensor nodes are designed and implemented. According to the evaluation results, the performance of the proposed method is better than that of a traditional time synchronization protocol.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.3390/s110807625
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
time synchronization,wireless sensor network,lightweight,hardware assisted time stamp,drift correction
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Synchronization,Nondeterministic algorithm,Computer science,Data synchronization,Network packet,Real-time computing,Clock synchronization,Timestamp,Wireless sensor network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
8
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.51
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hyuntae Cho18814.10
Jongdeok Kim24914.09
Yunju Baek315623.54