Wireless sensor networks are set to play a key role in a wide range of civilian and military applications, with tiny sensors connected through wireless links performing various sensing, computing, communication, and control tasks in highly distributed systems. This book presents a critical element in the deployment of wireless sensor networks: the process of synchronization. It summarizes the most important clock synchronization protocols proposed for wireless sensor networks with special emphasis placed on deriving efficient clock offset estimation schemes and performance benchmarks. Graduate students of electrical and computer engineering and computer science will find this a valuable resource, as will engineers who are interested in designing efficient clock synchronization algorithms and improving the performance of existing synchronization protocols.
By:
Erchin Serpedin (Texas A & M University), Qasim M. Chaudhari Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 253mm,
Width: 180mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 630g ISBN:9780521764421 ISBN 10: 0521764424 Pages: 244 Publication Date:30 July 2009 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Signal models for time synchronization; 3. Time synchronization protocols; 4. Fundamental approaches to time synchronization; 5. MVUE of clock offset; 6. Clock offset and skew estimation; 7. Schemes for estimation of clock offset and skew; 8. Pairwise broadcast synchronization; 9. Energy efficient estimation; 10. Clock synchronization of inactive nodes; 11. Adaptive multi-hop time synchronization; 12. Clock drift estimation; 13. Synchronization in a receiver-receiver protocol; 14. Robust estimation of clock offset; 15. Conclusions and future directions; References; Acronyms; Index.