Low-Energy Sensor Network Time Synchronization as an Emergent Property
<|reference_start|>Low-Energy Sensor Network Time Synchronization as an Emergent Property: The primary contribution of this work is to examine the energy efficiency of pulse coupled oscillation for time synchronization in a realistic wireless network environment and to explore the impact of mobility on convergence rate. Energy coupled oscillation is susceptible to interference; this approach uses reception and decoding of short packet bursts to eliminate this problem. The energy efficiency of a commonly used timestamp broadcast algorithm is compared and contrasted with pulse-coupled oscillation. The emergent pulse coupled oscillation technique shows greater energy efficiency as well as robustness with mobility. A proportion of the sensors may be integrated with GPS receivers in order to obtain a master clock time.<|reference_end|>
@article{bush2005low-energy,
    title={Low-Energy Sensor Network Time Synchronization as an Emergent Property},
    author={Stephen F. Bush},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0512094},
    year={2005},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0512094},
    primaryClass={cs.NI}
}