Firefly-inspired sensor network synchronicity with realistic radio effects

By Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Geetika Tewari, Ankit Patel, Matt Welsh, Radhika Nagpal. ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2005

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Wireless sensor network survey (2008, methodology): “Results show that RFA is able to achieve synchronicity and deal with communication latencies at the same time.”
Average TimeSynch: A consensus-based protocol for clock synchronization in wireless sensor networks (2011, methodology): “One example of a completely distributed synchronization strategy is the Reachback Firefly Algorithm (RFA), inspired by the firefly synchronization mechanism proposed in [31].”
A survey on engineering approaches for self-adaptive systems (2015, background): “Biological mechanisms, such as flocking [182, 183, 184], foraging [185, 186, 182], nest building [182], molding [182], local inhibition [179, 187, 188], lateral inhibition [189], chemotaxis [179, 190], embryogenesis [182], morphogen gradient [179], local monitoring [179], quorum sensing [179, 191, 1”
Gradient clock synchronization in wireless sensor networks (2009, methodology): “A completely distributed synchronization algorithm was proposed in [25].”
Kilobot: A low cost scalable robot system for collective behaviors (2012, methodology): “A modification of this approach [4] is intended to operate on systems that use a communication channel where contention and delays are possible, which is true for the Kilobot system.”