Cooperative time synchronization based on industrial wireless networks

Author

Zhang, Xiaotong ; Hu, Guolin ; Xu, Na ; Yunjie Zhang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Beijing, Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

27-29 March 2010

Firstpage

310

Lastpage

314

Abstract

According to spatial averaging and not traditional time averaging, cooperative time synchronization supposes a new method for time synchronization in wireless sensor networks. In this work, we present a cooperative time synchronization protocol that uses broadcasting and spatial averaging for the characters of industrial wireless networks. This protocol can dynamically adjust the received rate of the time synchronization messages on time and space, in order to achieve high precision and strong robust. Simulation estimates that the protocol has much better synchronization performance than traditional protocol only using time averaging in multiple-hop networks.

Keywords

protocols; synchronisation; wireless sensor networks; cooperative time synchronization; industrial wireless networks; multiple-hop networks; synchronization protocol; time synchronization messages; wireless sensor networks; Aerospace control; Automation; Construction industry; Large-scale systems; Monitoring; Space technology; Synchronization; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; cooperation; industrial wireless sensor networks; spatial average; time synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Computer Control (ICACC), 2010 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenyang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5845-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICACC.2010.5487011

Filename

5487011