On the interaction of clocks, power, and synchronization in duty-cycled embedded sensor nodes

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Schmid, Thomas ^a   Shea, Roy ^b   Charbiwala, Zainul ^b   Friedman, Jonathan ^b   Srivastava, Mani B ^b   Cho, Young H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clocks; Duty cycling; Oscillator; Temperature effects; Time synchronization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC LEVELS; CLOCK DRIFT; CLOCK SYSTEMS; DUTY-CYCLING; EMBEDDED SENSORS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HARDWARE EXPERIMENT; OSCILLATOR; QUANTIZATION ERRORS; RADIO ARCHITECTURES; RESYNCHRONIZATION; SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHM; SYSTEM ARCHITECTS; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

CLOCKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; INFORMATION SERVICES; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TEMPERATURE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 77958050734     PISSN: 15504859     EISSN: 15504867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1807048.1807053     Document Type: Article

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