Fine-grained time synchronization for mission-critical DTSNs

Seng Yong Lau*, Ling Jyh Chen, Yu Te Huang, Po Yen Lin, Yi Hsuan Chiang, Jyh How Huang, Kun Chan Lan, Hao Hua Chu, Polly Huang

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摘要

It is generally considered a trivial task to synchronize time in a distributed sensor network having a GPS module on board for each sensor node. This is not quite true depending on the application at hand. Commissioned to implement YuShanNet, a delay-tolerant sensor network (DTSN) enabling encounter information collection for hiker search and rescue, we find that the naive use of standard GPSs time acquisition functionalities gives a synchronization error at the scale of 10-100s milliseconds, which is not sufficient given two application-specific considerations: (1) data goodput and (2) energy efficiency. The two requirements are crucial in that the matter is life or death and the hiking trips usually take days. Towards efficient use of the intermittent connectivity in YuShanNet, we design, implement, and evaluate a time synchronization mechanism that improves the synchronization accuracy by approximately two orders of magnitude. This enables TDMA-fashioned MAC for high-goodput data transmission while the GPS is duty-cycled for energy efficiency.

原文英語
主出版物標題9th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, INSS 2012 - Conference Proceedings
發行者IEEE Computer Society
ISBN(列印)9781467317856
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2012
對外發佈
事件9th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, INSS 2012 - Antwerp, 比利时
持續時間: 2012 6月 112012 6月 14

出版系列

名字9th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, INSS 2012 - Conference Proceedings

其他

其他9th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, INSS 2012
國家/地區比利时
城市Antwerp
期間2012/06/112012/06/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 電腦網路與通信

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