Synchronization of pulse-coupled biological oscillators
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Pulse-coupled decentral synchronization
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Synchronization of Digital Telecommunications Networks
Synchronization of Digital Telecommunications Networks
Decentralized synchronization protocols with nearest neighbor communication
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
A scalable synchronization protocol for large scale sensor networks and its applications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Design and implementation of a single-frequency mesh network using OpenAirInterface
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on simulators and experimental testbeds design and development for wireless networks
Self-organized slot synchronization in time and frequency
Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies
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The present article develops a decentralized interbase station slot synchronization algorithm suitable for cellular mobile communication systems. The proposed cellular firefly synchronization (CelFSync) algorithm is derived from the theory of pulse-coupled oscillators, common to describe synchronization phenomena in biological systems, such as the spontaneous synchronization of fireflies. In order to maintain synchronization among base stations (BSs), even when there is no direct link between adjacent BSs, some selected user terminals (UTs) participate in the network synchronization process. Synchronization emerges by exchanging two distinct synchronization words, one transmitted by BSs and the other by active UTs, without any a priori assumption on the initial timing misalignments of BSs and UTs. In large-scale networks with inter-BS site distances up to a few kilometers, propagation delays severely affect the attainable timing accuracy of CelFSync. We show that by an appropriate combination of CelFSync with the timing advance procedure, which aligns uplink transmission of UTs to arrive simultaneously at the BS, a timing accuracy within a fraction of the inter-BS propagation delay is retained.