A new approach for time synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks: Pairwise broadcast synchronization Academic Article

abstract

• This letter proposes an energy-efficient clock synchronization scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) based on a novel time synchronization approach. Within the proposed synchronization approach, a subset of sensor nodes are synchronized by overhearing the timing message exchanges of a pair of sensor nodes. Therefore, a group of sensor nodes can be synchronized without sending any extra messages. This paper brings two main contributions: 1. Development of a novel synchronization approach which can be partially or fully applied for implementation of new synchronization protocols and for improving the performance of existing time synchronization protocols. 2. Design of a time synchronization scheme which significantly reduces the overall network-wide energy consumption without incurring any loss of synchronization accuracy compared to other well-known schemes. 2008 IEEE.

authors

• Qaraqe, Khalid
• Serpedin, Erchin

published proceedings

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Noh, K., Serpedin, E., & Qaraqe, K.

citation count

• 188

complete list of authors

• Noh, Kyoung-Lae||Serpedin, Erchin||Qaraqe, Khalid

publication date

• September 2008

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications  Journal

keywords

• Clock Synchronization
• Time Synchronization
• Wireless Sensor Networks

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/TWC.2008.070343

start page

• 3318

end page

• 3322

volume

• 7

issue

• 9

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/twc.2008.070343

user-defined tag

• 7 Affordable and Clean Energy