Improved estimation of clock offset in sensor networks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chaudhari, Qasim M ^a   Serpedin, Erchin ^a   Wu, Yik Chung ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CLOCK OFFSET; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; EXPONENTIAL DELAY; LINK DELAY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MESSAGE EXCHANGE; MINIMUM VARIANCE UNBIASED ESTIMATOR; NETWORK DELAYS; STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70449490745     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2009.5199072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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