Synchronization of pulse-coupled biological oscillators
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
The flooding time synchronization protocol
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Firefly-inspired sensor network synchronicity with realistic radio effects
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
WiseMAC: an ultra low power MAC protocol for the downlink of infrastructure wireless sensor networks
ISCC '04 Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 2 (ISCC"04) - Volume 02
Ultra-low duty cycle MAC with scheduled channel polling
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
A component-based architecture for power-efficient media access control in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Gradient clock synchronization in wireless sensor networks
IPSN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Reachback Firefly Synchronicity with Late Sensitivity Window in Wireless Sensor Networks
HIS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Ninth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems - Volume 01
Emergent Slot Synchronization in Wireless Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
A novel key management scheme for wireless embedded systems
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
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In this paper, we present a decentralised scheme that facilitates reliable network wide broadcast messaging without the requirement of strict time synchronisation, for duty-cycled low-power wireless embedded systems. In this emergent broadcast slot (EBS) scheme, devices coordinate their wake-up periods with their neighbours to exchange schedule information locally. This leads to the emergence of local slot synchronisation without the need for either network-wide synchronisation or a centralised time synchronisation element. We theoretically show that this scheme converges faster than similar emergent and gradient-based approaches, which we confirm by evaluation on real test-beds. We also show that our scheme exhibits lower overheads while being more tolerant to disturbances caused by faulty nodes, wireless link failures, contention and interference in presence of deterministic propagation delays.