Analysis of clock offset and skew estimation in timing-sync protocol for sensor networks

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Noh, Kyoung Lae ^a   Chaudhari, Qasim ^a   Serpedin, Erchin ^a   Sutert, Bruce ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clock; Cramer Rao Lower Bound (CRLB); Maximum Likelihood (ML); Synchronization; Timing sync Protocol for Sensor Networks (TPSN)

Indexed keywords

CLOCK OFFSET; CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND (CRLB); TIME SYNCHRONIZATION; TIMING SYNC PROTOCOL FOR SENSOR NETWORKS (TPSN);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTIMIZATION; SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 50949094340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2006.118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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