Non-cooperative versus cooperative approaches for distributed network synchronization

Proceedings - Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 537-541

  Scaglione, Anna ^a   Pagliari, Roberto ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS; PULSE COUPLED OSCILLATORS (PCO);

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; PACKET NETWORKS; SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 34547655989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2007.85     Document Type: Conference Paper

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