• DocumentCode
    1620762
  • Title

    Performance Limits of Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Author

    Severi, Stefano ; Dardari, Davide

  • Author_Institution
    WiLAB, Univ. of Bologna at Cesena, Cesena
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    2124
  • Lastpage
    2128
  • Abstract
    We propose a new approach to evaluate the ultimate performance limit of time synchronization in wireless sensor networks based on the estimation theory. In particular the lower bound on the variance of the average synchronization error in a fully connected network is derived by taking into account the statistical characterization of the message delivering time.
  • Keywords
    estimation theory; synchronisation; wireless sensor networks; average synchronization error; estimation theory; message delivering time; time synchronization; wireless sensor networks; Clocks; Communications Society; Estimation theory; Monitoring; Network topology; Oscillators; Peer to peer computing; Synchronization; Uncertainty; Wireless sensor networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications, 2008. ICC '08. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2075-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2075-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICC.2008.407
  • Filename
    4533443