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On the Scalability of Routing Integrated Time Synchronization
Overview Time synchronization is a crucial component of a large class of sensor network applications, traditionally implemented as a standalone middleware service that provides a virtual global time to the application layer. While this approach is simple and robust, it suffers from two important drawbacks: first, power aware operation is cumbersome to implement, and second, periodic resynchronizations induce an extensive messaging overhead. To resolve these problems, a new class of reactive time synchronization techniques has been proposed that establish a common reference time base post facto, i.e. after an event of interest had occurred. This paper presents the formal error analysis of a representative reactive technique, the Routing Integrated Time Synchronization protocol (RITS).
| Publisher | University of California | File Format | |
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| Date Published | February 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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