Abstract
During the last decade, there has been an efficient use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in different fields such as environmental surveillance, military, disaster management, medical, etc. In these applications, large number of sensor nodes are deployed, which work in harsh environment. The main objective of the wireless sensor nodes is to observe the event and inform the same to other node or to sink. There are some applications in the wireless sensor networks which require exact time of the event occurrence. Such applications require that nodes of the WSN should be synchronized with global clock. In this paper, we study the impact of time synchronization and analyze various time synchronization protocols highlighting their features, objectives and perform qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Keywords: Delay, offset, skew, time synchronization.
International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and Control
Title:Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Time Synchronization Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Volume: 4 Issue: 1
Author(s): Gopal Chand Gautam and Narottam Chand Kaushal
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Keywords: Delay, offset, skew, time synchronization.
Abstract: During the last decade, there has been an efficient use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in different fields such as environmental surveillance, military, disaster management, medical, etc. In these applications, large number of sensor nodes are deployed, which work in harsh environment. The main objective of the wireless sensor nodes is to observe the event and inform the same to other node or to sink. There are some applications in the wireless sensor networks which require exact time of the event occurrence. Such applications require that nodes of the WSN should be synchronized with global clock. In this paper, we study the impact of time synchronization and analyze various time synchronization protocols highlighting their features, objectives and perform qualitative and quantitative analysis.
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Gautam Chand Gopal and Kaushal Chand Narottam, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Time Synchronization Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks, International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and Control 2014; 4 (1) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2210327905999150204113616
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2210327905999150204113616 |
Print ISSN 2210-3279 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 2210-3287 |
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