Paper Info
Title
Overview of Time Synchronization for IoT Deployments: Clock Discipline Algorithms and Protocols.
Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to change the everyday life of its users by enabling data exchanges among pervasive things through the Internet. Such a broad aim, however, puts prohibitive constraints on applications demanding time-synchronized operation for the chronological ordering of information or synchronous execution of some tasks, since in general the networks are formed by entities of widely varying resources. On one hand, the existing contemporary solutions for time synchronization, such as Network Time Protocol, do not easily tailor to resource-constrained devices, and on the other, the available solutions for constrained systems do not extend well to heterogeneous deployments. In this article, the time synchronization problems for IoT deployments for applications requiring a coherent notion of time are studied. Detailed derivations of the clock model and various clock relation models are provided. The clock synchronization methods are also presented for different models, and their expected performance are derived and illustrated. A survey of time synchronization protocols is provided to aid the IoT practitioners to select appropriate components for a deployment. The clock discipline algorithms are presented in a tutorial format, while the time synchronization methods are summarized as a survey. Therefore, this paper is a holistic overview of the available time synchronization methods for IoT deployments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20205928
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
internet of things,capillary networks,wireless sensor networks,clock synchronization,clock discipline algorithms,time synchronization protocols
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
20
1424-8220
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hüseyin Yigitler17410.20
Behnam Badihi211.04
Riku Jäntti377392.13