Analysis of a global synchronization algorithm in wireless sensor networks

Author

Lee, Woonsik ; Lee, Hwang Soo

Author_Institution

Mobile Commun. Lab., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon

fYear

2008

fDate

20-22 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

25

Abstract

Sensor-MAC (S-MAC) is a medium access control protocol designed particularly for wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we introduce a global synchronization algorithm for wireless sensor networks and investigate several aspects of the algorithm. We show the algorithm has an acceptable scalability to the network size and also discuss about the time synchronization, oscillation and interference issues of the algorithm. In the simulation, we show the performance of the algorithm and measure the packet latency.

Keywords

access protocols; radiofrequency interference; synchronisation; wireless sensor networks; global synchronization algorithm; interference; medium access control protocol; oscillation; sensor-MAC; time synchronization; wireless sensor networks; Access protocols; Algorithm design and analysis; Delay; Energy consumption; Interference; Media Access Protocol; Scalability; Sleep; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks; Global synchronization; Media access control; S-MAC; Schedule unifying algorithm; Sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, 2008. MFI 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2143-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2144-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MFI.2008.4648102

Filename

4648102