Paper Info
Title
CMTS: Consensus-based Multi-hop Time Synchronization protocol in wireless sensor networks
Abstract
The Consensus Time Synchronization (CTS) overcomes the shortcoming of centralized time synchronization in terms of scalability and robustness to node failure. However, CTS leads to slow convergence rate, high communication traffic and the inability to provide synchronization to an external time source. This paper proposes a novel distributed time synchronization protocol for WSNs, the Consensus-based Multi-hop Time Synchronization (CMTS) protocol. CMTS combines the benefits of consensus-based scheme, multi-level topology, synchronization by overhearing, master node synchronization, and MAC-layer timestamping. Simulations are performed to validate the effectiveness of CMTS. The results show that CMTS achieves high accuracy and improves the convergence time compared to competing schemes in the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/NCA.2016.7778623
2016 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
consensus based multihop time synchronization protocol,CMTS protocol,wireless sensor networks,WSN,consensus time synchronization,CTS,high communication traffic,distributed time synchronization protocol,consensus based scheme,multilevel topology,master node synchronization,MAC layer timestamping
Convergence (routing),Timestamping,Synchronization,Computer science,Data synchronization,Computer network,Robustness (computer science),Rate of convergence,Wireless sensor network,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-3217-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amin Saiah140.85
Chafika Benzaid25413.06
Nadjib Badache361260.98