Nonidentical linear pulse-coupled oscillators model with application to time synchronization in wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2205-2215

  An, Zhulin ^a,b   Zhu, Hongsong ^c   Li, Xinrong ^d   Xu, Chaonong ^e   Xu, Yongjun ^a   Li, Xiaowei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^e CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired algorithms; pulse coupled oscillators; synchronization; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ALGORITHMS; CLASSIC ALGORITHM; CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; LEBESGUE MEASURE; NETWORK TIME-SYNCHRONIZATION; PULSE-COUPLED OSCILLATORS; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLUMINESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); SENSORS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79956267504     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2038407     Document Type: Article

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