R4Syn : Relative Referenceless Receiver/Receiver Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks

dc.citation.epage178
dc.citation.issue4
dc.citation.spage175
dc.citation.volume19
dc.contributor.authorDjenouri, Djamel
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-23T17:36:45Z
dc.date.available2013-05-23T17:36:45Z
dc.date.issued2012-04
dc.description.abstractA new time synchronization protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN) is proposed. It uses the receiver-to-receiver principle introduced by the Reference Broadcast Synchronization (RBS), which reduces the time-critical path compared to the sender-to-receiver approach. The proposed protocol has the advantage of distributing the reference's function among all sensors, which eliminates the single point of failure (reference) shortcomings of RBS. It also allows timestamps to be piggybacked to the regular signals (beacons) and thus eliminates the need of separate transmissions for exchanging timestamps. After local synchronization, a multihop extension is proposed using final local estimates, with no forwarding of synchronization signals. Maximum likelihood estimators (MLE) are derived to estimate relative skew/offset for channels with Gaussian distributed delays. The Cramer-Rao lower bounds (CRLB) are accordingly derived and numerically compared with the MLE's mean square error (MSE). Results show convergence of the proposed estimators' precision to their respective CRLB with the increase of the number of signals.fr_FR
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/LSP.2012.2185491
dc.identifier.issn1070-9908
dc.identifier.urihttp://dl.cerist.dz/handle/CERIST/131
dc.publisherIEEE Signal Processing Societyfr_FR
dc.relation.ispartofIEEE Signal Processing Letters
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIEEE Signal Processing Letters;19(4)
dc.relation.pages175-178fr_FR
dc.rights.holderIEEEfr_FR
dc.structureRéseaux de Capteurs et Applicationsfr_FR
dc.subjecttime synchronizationfr_FR
dc.subjectsignal processing for communicationfr_FR
dc.subjectwireless sensor networkfr_FR
dc.subjectRelative synchronizationfr_FR
dc.titleR4Syn : Relative Referenceless Receiver/Receiver Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networksfr_FR
dc.typeArticle
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