Title
ARS: Adaptive Robust Synchronization for Underground Coal Wireless Internet of Things.
Abstract
Clock synchronization is still a vital and challenging task for underground coal wireless internet of things (IoT) due to the uncertainty of underground environment and unreliability of communication links. Instead of considering on-demand driven clock synchronization, this paper proposes a novel Adaptive Robust Synchronization (ARS) scheme with packets loss for mine wireless environment. A clock synchronization framework that is based on Kalman filtering is first proposed, which can adaptively adjust the sampling period of each clock and reduce the communication overhead in single-hop networks. The proposed scheme also solves the problem of outliers in data packets with time-stamps. In addition, this paper extends the ARS algorithm to multi-hop networks. Additionally, the upper and lower bounds of error covariance expectation are analyzed in the case of incomplete measurement. Extensive simulations are conducted in order to evaluate the performance. In the simulation environment, the clock accuracy of ARS algorithm is improved by 7.85% when compared with previous studies for single-hop networks. For multi-hop networks, the proposed scheme improves the accuracy by 12.56%. The results show that the proposed algorithm has high scalability, robustness, and accuracy, and can quickly adapt to different clock accuracy requirements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20174981
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
adaptive robust synchronization,kalman filtering,wireless internet of things,underground coal mines
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
17
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kuiyuan Zhang101.69
Mingzhi Pang201.69
Yuqing Yin312.41
Shouwan Gao402.37
Pengpeng Chen512317.75