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We present HORNET, a parallel, highly configurable, cycle-level multicore simulator based on an ingress-queued worm-hole router NoC architecture. The parallel simulation engine offers cycle-accurate as well as periodic synchronization; while preserving functional accuracy, this permits tradeoffs between perfect timing accuracy and high speed with very good accuracy. When run on 6 separate physical...
Wireless Sensor Network for their rapid deployment can be used in habitat monitoring for detecting fire and in disaster for helping rescue teams. Node localization is key factor for some applications. We propose the Triangular Centroid Localization algorithm (TCL). It is based in simple trigonometric figures and it does not require special hardware or synchronization time. In our simulations using...
This paper describes a TDOA-based positioning system by means of ultra-wideband impulse radio (UWB-IR). The system consists of three reference nodes and a location server. One of the reference nodes transmits an impulse signal to other reference nodes for synchronizing them immediately after receiving an impulse signal sent from a target node. Thus, no additional component for the synchronization...
End-to-end real-time Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) signal synchronization that is capable of simultaneously compensating for both Symbol Timing Offset (STO) and Sampling Clock Offset (SCO) is experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, over 64-quadrature amplitude modulated (QAM)-encoded, 11.25-Gb/s, 25-km, Intensity-Modulation and Direct-Detection (IMDD) single mode...
Considering its central importance to sensor networks, time synchronization has received extensive attention by the research community. Nevertheless, we argue in this paper that existing approaches introduce undesirable trade-offs. For example, while GPS offers excellent accuracy for outdoor deployments, the high cost and power consumption of GPS receivers make them prohibitive to many applications...
Existing time synchronization algorithms and protocols mostly focus on improving the synchronization accuracy. However, they usually require frequent resynchronization to keep designed precision in actual applications, which leads to high energy consumption and heavy traffic load. This paper presents a Prediction based Long-cycle Time Synchronization algorithm (PLTS), which puts emphasis on reducing...
Although there are a lot of synchronization protocols in WSN, almost all of them face the same problem, that is, synchronization overhead has not been well controlled. The root of this problem is that they have adopted the same basic communication model- pairwise communication model. Increasing communication overhead in synchronization shortens the lifetime of the system and limits the wide application...
Adding location to the available information enables a new category of applications. With the constrained battery on cell phones, energy-efficient localization becomes an important challenge. In this paper we introduce a low-energy calibration- free localization scheme based on the available internal sensors in many of today's phones. We start by energy profiling the different sensors that can be...
Time synchronization is a critical service for distributed networks. In this paper, we investigate this problem in underwater sensor networks (UWSNs). We propose a novel time synchronization scheme, called ``Mobi-Sync''. Mobi-Sync effectively utilizes the spatial correlation of underwater mobile sensor nodes to estimate the long and dynamic propagation delays. Simulation results show that Mobi-Sync...
Many existing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) synchronisation protocols have demonstrated microsecond-level accuracy is achievable. Furthermore, sub-microsecond-level accuracy has recently been reported, although rather sophisticated, relatively bulky and custom-designed hardware were needed. This paper addresses a fundamental problem in WSN synchronisation: is there a more elegant way to achieve precise...
The behavior of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is nowadays widely analyzed. One of the most important issues is related to their energy consumption, as this has a major impact on the network lifetime. Another important application requirement is to ensure data sensing synchronization, which leads to additional energy consumption as a high number of messages is sent and received at each node. Our proposal...
Time synchronization is the basis of real-time connecting in distributed battle simulation systems, which is an important issue for battle simulation. The time management of HLA and approaches of time synchronization in distributed battle simulation systems are introduced, and then grounded on the analysis of time synchronization on real-time connecting, the approach of RTXTimer-based time synchronization...
A low complexity time domain channel estimation technique for OFDM systems is proposed. It uses training symbols to estimate the channel impulse responses (CIR) via circular cross-correlation. A CIR search window technique is also proposed to optimise the accuracy of synchronisation and channel estimation. The output of the search window can also be used for the estimation of channel delay spread...
Compared with the global positioning system (GPS), the digital television (DTV) broadcasting signal is a promising candidate for position location due to low implementation cost and strong signal reception. Without changing the current infrastructure of the Chinese DTV broadcasting network, this paper proposes a novel positioning scheme using the multi-carrier pseudo-noise (PN-MC) training sequence...
A method of combining broadcasting TPSN synchronization protocol with node local clock self-correction is proposed through analyzing the nature of TPSN synchronization protocol and star-structure network, aiming at the low energy consumption of wireless sensor network and the accuracy which it requires to clock synchronization. Experimental results show that the method may prolong synchronization...
An algorithm for implementing higher layer synchronization in ECMA-368 networks is being developed within the framework of the EUWB research and development project. In this paper, we adapt three synchronization algorithms used in wireless sensor networks to suit an Ultra Wideband (UWB) network and evaluate their performance in order to determine the best algorithm for a video streaming application...
Time synchronization is an important challenge for femtocells. The inaccurate clock of femtocells can introduce interference and affect spectrum accuracy. Among the potential methods to solve this problem, wireless network based time synchronization schemes are economical and available in most situations. In wireless networks, receiver-receiver synchronization schemes like RBS offer a very good performance...
In peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, a group of multiple peer processes (peers) are required to cooperate with each other. In this paper, we discuss a heterogeneous hybrid time group communication (HHT) protocol which takes advantage of the linear time (LT) and physical time (PT) to causally order messages in a scalable heterogeneous group. It depends on accuracy of each physical clock and minimum...
There is an increasing demand on accurate time synchronization for protection and control equipment for the electrical power supply system. Today, with the proliferation of Ethernet networks in the substation automation systems, mainly driven by other standards as IEC 61850, time distribution over these networks appears to be especially appealing. NTP was already specified in IEC 61850 as time distribution...
The IEEE 1588 standard is widely established and accepted for clock synchronization in Ethernet networks. High accuracy IEEE 1588 implementations require a well-coordinated hardware/software co-design. Processing of sophisticated control algorithms for the time speed of local clocks within synchronization slaves are particularly important. Hence, IEEE 1588 implementations should be tested with respect...
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