Low complexity UWB radios for precise wireless sensor network synchronization

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2538-2548

  Carbone, Paolo ^a   Cazzorla, Alessandro ^a   Ferrari, Paolo ^b   Flammini, Alessandra ^b   Moschitta, Antonio ^a   Rinaldi, Stefano ^b   Sauter, Thilo ^c   Sisinni, Emiliano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; synchronization; UWB systems; wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF; DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENTS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; LOCAL OSCILLATOR SOURCES; SYNCHRONIZATION PERFORMANCE; SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS; UWB SYSTEM;

CLOCKS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; HARDWARE; SYNCHRONIZATION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84882455920     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2259101     Document Type: Article

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