Clock Synchronization of Wireless Distributed System Based on IEEE 1588

Author

Li, Li ; Li, Benliang ; Wang, Houjun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Autom. Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2010

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

205

Lastpage

209

Abstract

Advanced clock synchronization is a basic requirement of significant importance for the wireless distributed system (WDS). IEEE 1588 standard defines a high precision clock synchronization protocol in measurement and control systems. In this paper, an excellent time synchronization scheme for WDS based on the IEEE 1588 standard is proposed. The application of IEEE 1588 on wireless distributed system is analyzed with emphasis on PTP synchronization accuracy influenced by topology choice and domain division. The two typical wireless network topologies, i.e. single-level star structure and multi-level tree structure, are employed in the scheme. Matlab simulations are carried out to evaluate the synchronization accuracy of the synchronization scheme for both network topologies. In addition, the PTP clock synchronization accuracy is researched on different access mechanism through simulations.

Keywords

clocks; mathematics computing; protocols; radio networks; synchronisation; telecommunication network topology; IEEE 1588; Matlab simulations; PTP synchronization; control systems; high precision clock synchronization protocol; measurement systems; multi-level tree structure; single-level star structure; time synchronization scheme; wireless distributed system; wireless network topologies; IEEE 1588; Wireless; Wireless Distributed System;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Huangshan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8434-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4235-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CyberC.2010.45

Filename

5615692