A Survey of Clock Synchronization Over Packet-Switched Networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2926-2947

  Lévesque, Martin ^a   Tipper, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

packet switched networks; synchronization; Time dissemination

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; PACKET NETWORKS; SURVEYS; SWITCHING NETWORKS;

APPLICATION SCENARIO; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION; INTELLIGENT POWER; SECURITY THREATS; STATE OF THE ART; TIME DISSEMINATION;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 84999749818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2590438     Document Type: Review

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