Estimating clock uncertainty for efficient duty-cycling in sensor networks

SenSys 2005 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 130-141

  Ganeriwal, Saurabh ^a   Ganesan, Deepak ^b   Shim, Hohyun ^a   Tsiatsis, Vlasios ^a   Srivastava, Mani B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Clock drift; Polynomial model estimation; Rate adaptation; Sampling period; Sensor networks; Time synchronization

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CLOCK DRIFT; POLYNOMIAL MODELING; RATE ADAPTATION; SAMPLING PERIOD; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 84885969136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1098918.1098933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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