Clock Drift Management Using Nature Inspired Algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Prakash Tekchandani;Aditya Trivedi

  • Affiliations:
  • ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India;ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Information Technology Research
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Time Synchronization is common requirement for most network applications. It is particularly essential in a Wireless Sensor Networks WSNs to allow collective signal processing, proper correlation of diverse measurements taken from a set of distributed sensor elements and for an efficient sharing of the communication channel. The Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol FTSP was developed explicitly for time synchronization of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we optimized FTSP for clock drift management using Particle Swarm Optimization PSO, Variant of PSO and Differential Evolution DE. The paper estimates the clock offset, clock skew, generates linear line and optimizes the value of average time synchronization error using PSO, Variant of PSO and DE. In this paper we present implementation and experimental results that produces reduced average time synchronization error using PSO, Variant of PSO and DE, compared to that of linear regression used in FTSP.