A Kalman filter approach to clock synchronization of cascaded network elements

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 1, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 54-59

  Na, Chongning ^a   Scheiterer, Ruxandra Lupas ^a   Obradovic, Dragan ^a   Nossek, Josef A ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kalman filter; Precision Time Protocol; State space model; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

CASCADED NETWORKS; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; FILTER APPROACH; IEEE 1588; MASTER CLOCK; NETWORK SYNCHRONIZATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PRECISION TIME PROTOCOL; QUANTIZATION ERRORS; REFERENCE TIME; STATE-SPACE MODELS; SYNCHRONIZATION PRECISION; SYSTEM VARIABLES; TIMESTAMPING; TIMING INFORMATION;

ESTIMATION; KALMAN FILTERS; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; RANDOM ERRORS; STAMPING;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 79960951665     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20090924-3-IT-4005.0047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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