Best paper: stabilizing clock synchronization for wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Ted Herman;Chen Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa;Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa

  • Venue:
  • SSS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Stabilization, safety, and security of distributed systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

One of the simplest protocols for clock synchronization in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks is the converge-to-max protocol, which has the simple logic of adjusting each node's clock to be at least as large as any neighbor's. This paper examines the converge-to-max protocol, showing it to be stabilizing even when node clocks have skew, bounded domains, and dynamic communication links.