Synchronization of pulse-coupled biological oscillators
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Decentralized synchronization protocols with nearest neighbor communication
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) - Special issue on networking and information theory
Biologically inspired intercellular slot synchronization
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Emergent Slot Synchronization in Wireless Networks
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IEEE Communications Magazine
ML estimation of time and frequency offset in OFDM systems
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A robust timing and frequency synchronization for OFDM systems
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The present article develops a decentralized slot synchronization algorithm suitable for wireless networks. The proposed algorithm is derived from the theory of pulse-coupled oscillators, commonly used to describe synchronization phenomena in biological systems, e.g. spontaneous synchronization of fireflies, to achieve time synchronization, and from consensus theory to achieve frequency synchronization. With the proposed synchronization method, synchronization emerges over time, without the need to define a master clock and without any a priori assumption on the initial timing and frequency misalignments.