One-way delay measurement: State of the art

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2742-2750

  De Vito, Luca ^a   Rapuano, Sergio ^a   Tomaciello, Laura ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b Telsey Telecommunications SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Global Positioning System (GPS); IEEE 1588; Network; Network Time Protocol (NTP); One way delay (OWD); Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SYNCHRONIZATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATIONS; DELAY MEASUREMENTS; IEEE 1588; NETWORK; NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK PERFORMANCES; NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL (NTP); NETWORK TIME PROTOCOLS; ONE-WAY DELAY (OWD); OPERATING SYSTEMS; OWD MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURES; STATE OF THE ARTS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 57049185812     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.926052     Document Type: Review

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