Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks

By Qasim M. Chaudhari and Erchin Serpedin

Technology & Engineering

Cambridge University Press
Publication date: July 2009

ISBN: 9780511590825

Digital Book format: PDF (Adobe DRM)

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Wireless sensor networks are set to play a key role in a wide range of civilian and military applications, with tiny sensors connected through wireless links performing various sensing, computing, communication, and control tasks in highly distributed systems. This book presents a critical element in the deployment of wireless sensor networks: the process of synchronization. It summarizes the most important clock synchronization protocols proposed for wireless sensor networks with special emphasis placed on deriving efficient clock offset estimation schemes and performance benchmarks. Graduate students of electrical and computer engineering and computer science will find this a valuable resource, as will engineers who are interested in designing efficient clock synchronization algorithms and improving the performance of existing synchronization protocols.