Adaptive hybrid clock discipline algorithm for the network time protocol
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Adaptive protocols for information dissemination in wireless sensor networks
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The jitter time-stamp approach for clock recovery of real-time variable bit-rate traffic
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A capacity analysis for the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol
Wireless Networks
Wireless: towards high performance modeling of the 802.11 Wireless protocol
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
Wireless sensor networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Directed diffusion for wireless sensor networking
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Investigation of the IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) Sublayer Functions
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
Timing-sync protocol for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Fine-grained network time synchronization using reference broadcasts
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Wireless security
Global Clock Synchronization in Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Tiny-sync: Tight time synchronization for wireless sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Routing and quality of service support for mobile ad hoc networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Energy-efficient medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Time synchronization methods for wireless sensor networks: A survey
Programming and Computing Software
Temporal Predicate Detection Using Synchronized Clocks
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Design and implementation of a PCO-based protocol for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Scalable synchronization of clocks in wireless sensor networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Extension of pairwise broadcast clock synchronization for multicluster sensor networks
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
ACES: adaptive clock estimation and synchronization using Kalman filtering
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems
Virtual-coordinate-based delivery-guaranteed routing protocol in wireless sensor networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Towards a unified view on space and time in sensor networks
Computer Communications
Scalable synchronization of clocks in distributed environments
PDCS '07 Proceedings of the 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems
A time synchronization method for underwater wireless sensor networks
CCDC'09 Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Chinese control and decision conference
Automatic event-based synchronization of multimodal data streams from wearable and ambient sensors
EuroSSC'09 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Smart sensing and context
Improved estimation of clock offset in sensor networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Energy-efficient estimation of clock offset for inactive nodes in wireless sensor networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
On minimum variance unbiased estimation of clock offset in a two-way message exchange mechanism
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
An energy efficient and fault-tolerant clock synchronization protocol for wireless sensor networks
COMSNETS'10 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on COMmunication systems and NETworks
Data transmission and base-station placement for optimizing network lifetime
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing
Synchronization in sensor networks: an overview
MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
A co-commitment based secure data collection scheme for tiered wireless sensor networks
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A timed calculus for wireless systems
Theoretical Computer Science
Querying context maps using relative timing predicates in pervasive environments
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-time Support for Networked Embedded Systems
A timed calculus for wireless systems
FSEN'09 Proceedings of the Third IPM international conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering
Optimal Hop Extended MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Tracking low-precision clocks with time-varying drifts using kalman filtering
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
International Journal of Sensor Networks
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In the near future, small intelligent devices will be deployed in homes, plantations, oceans, rivers, streets, and highways to monitor the environment. These devices require time synchronization, so voice and video data from different sensor nodes can be fused and displayed in a meaningful way at the sink. Instead of time synchronization between just the sender and receiver or within a local group of sensor nodes, some applications require the sensor nodes to maintain a similar time within a certain tolerance throughout the lifetime of the network. The Time-Diffusion Synchronization Protocol (TDP) is proposed as a network-wide time synchronization protocol. It allows the sensor network to reach an equilibrium time and maintains a small time deviation tolerance from the equilibrium time. In addition, it is analytically shown that the TDP enables time in the network to converge. Also, simulations are performed to validate the effectiveness of TDP in synchronizing the time throughout the network and balancing the energy consumed by the sensor nodes.