Fundamental limits on synchronization of affine clocks in networks

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 921-926

  Freris, Nikolaos M ^a,b   Kumar, P R ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; MESSAGE PASSING; PACKET NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYNCHRONIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; REFERENCE CLOCKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 62749133564     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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