Title
Synchronization Considerations for Real-Time Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
Abstract
Wireless sensing and networking technologies have taken a strong foothold in the process control industry. The focus has now shifted towards applying control with wireless technology. As such, the current industrial wireless sensor network architectures are under increased scrutiny about their real-time, reliability, and security performances. In this paper, we take a renewed look at network synchronization, the basic building block to support real-time activities. We present our analysis, key observations, and recommendations. We also get into the depth of WirelessHART, the most deployed industrial wireless network architecture, and affirm that, with good practice, we could achieve highly reliable synchronization to provide guaranteed packet deliveries. The correctness of the time synchronization analysis in both line and mesh network topologies is verified through extensive simulation experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/RTCSA.2016.52
2016 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network,Real-Time,Network Synchronization,Industrial Automation
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Wireless network,Computer science,Data synchronization,Computer network,Real-time computing,Wireless WAN,Wireless mesh network,Wi-Fi array,Municipal wireless network,Wireless sensor network,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1533-2306
978-1-5090-2480-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
20
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Deji Chen166944.92
Mark Nixon235826.24
Shaobo Zheng301.01
Tao Gong481.25
Song Han555354.94
Aloysius K. Mok666286.52