Distributed clock synchronization in delay tolerant networks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Choi, Bong Jun ^a   Shen, Xuemin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCK ERRORS; CONVERGENCE SPEED; DATA COLLECTION; DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED CLOCKS; GLOBAL CLOCKS; INTERMITTENT NETWORKS; LOGICAL CLOCK; MAC LAYER PROTOCOLS; MOBILE WIRELESS; SIMULATION RESULT; TIMING INFORMATION;

BLOCK CODES; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; ROUTERS; SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 77955398251     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2010.5502781     Document Type: Conference Paper

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