Low-power clock synchronization using electromagnetic energy radiating from AC power lines

Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 211-224

  Rowe, Anthony ^a   Gupta, Vikram ^a   Rajkumar, Ragunathan ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardware clock synchronization; Sensor networks; Synchronization; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AC POWER; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; COORDINATED ACTUATION; DUTY-CYCLING; EIGHT NODE; ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; GLOBAL CLOCKS; IN-BAND; LC TANKS; LEVEL COMPENSATION; LOW POWER; LOW-POWER MICROCONTROLLERS; LOWPOWER HARDWARE; MAC PROTOCOL; OUT-OF-BAND; PHASE OFFSETS; RADIO MESSAGES; RECEIVER CIRCUITS; SENSOR NETWORKING; SOFTWARE CLOCK; SYNCHRONIZATION SCHEME; USEFUL PROPERTIES;

ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; MESSAGE PASSING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES; TIMING JITTER; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 74549191079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1644038.1644060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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