An adaptive-rate time synchronization protocol for wireless sensor networks

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Macii, D ^a   Petri, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clock offset; Simple response method (SRM); Synchronization; Time; Wireless sensor networks (WSNs)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ADAPTIVE-RATE TIME SYNCHRONIZATION; CLOCK OFFSET; COLLABORATIVE PROCESSING; SIMPLE RESPONSE METHOD (SRM);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34648824607     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/imtc.2007.379405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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