Delay and jitter characterization for software-based clock synchronization over WLAN using PTP

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1198-1206

  Mahmood, Aneeq ^a   Exel, Reinhard ^b   Sauter, Thilo ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accuracy; clock synchronization; IEEE 1588; IEEE 802.11; precision; precision time protocol (PTP); software timestamping; Wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; HARDWARE; JITTER; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ACCURACY; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; IEEE 1588; IEEE 802.11S; PRECISION; PRECISION TIME PROTOCOLS; TIMESTAMPING;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 84900816171     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2014.2304413     Document Type: Article

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