RTSP: An accurate and energy-efficient protocol for clock synchronization in WSNs

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 578-589

  Akhlaq, Muhammad ^a   Sheltami, Tarek R ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; algorithm; clock; energy efficiency; estimation; protocol; synchronization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADAPTIVE RE-SYNCHRONIZATION INTERVALS; BETTER PERFORMANCE; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; CLUSTERED NETWORKS; DATA CONSISTENCY; DATA POINTS; ENERGY AWARENESS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY EFFICIENT PROTOCOLS; FLAT NETWORKS; GLOBAL CLOCKS; LEAST SQUARE; MULTI-HOP ARCHITECTURE; MULTIHOP; PROPAGATION DELAYS; REFERENCE NODES; TIME STAMPS; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOLS; TIMESTAMPING;

ALGORITHMS; CLOCKS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ESTIMATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NODES;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 84873733808     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2232472     Document Type: Article

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