Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
An Adaptive Quorum-Based Energy Conserving Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Providing distributed certificate authority service in cluster-based mobile ad hoc networks
Computer Communications
Toward secure and scalable time synchronization in ad hoc networks
Computer Communications
A Clock Synchronization Algorithm for Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Best paper: stabilizing clock synchronization for wireless sensor networks
SSS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Stabilization, safety, and security of distributed systems
MTSP: multi-hop time synchronization protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless ad hoc network
WASA'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications
A novel efficient power-saving MAC protocol for multi-hop MANETs
International Journal of Communication Systems
Large-scale access scheduling in wireless mesh networks using social centrality
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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The IEEE 802.11 standards support the peer-to-peer mode Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS), which is an ad hoc network with all its stations within each other's transmission range. In an IBSS, it is important that all stations are synchronized to common clock. Synchronization is needed for frequency hopping and power saving. The synchronization mechanism specified in the IEEE 802.11 standards has severe scalability problem. The probability that stations may get out of synchronization is pretty high in large IBSS. New synchronization algorithm has been proposed for large-scale ad hoc network. We propose more efficient algorithm in this paper that synchronizes clock more accurately. We are able to synchronize the clock within 100 µs when the number of stations is more than 300. This is a big improvement over the current best algorithm and the 802.11 specified protocol. To our best knowledge, the current best algorithm can synchronize the clock within 550 µs for 300-station network. The 802.11 standard protocol can have clock drift over 5000 µs for the same network.