The flooding time synchronization protocol

By Miklos Maroti, Branislav Kusy, Gyula Simon, Á. Lédeczi. ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2004

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Citations in the corpus

• SensorScope: Application-specific sensor network for environmental monitoring (2010, neutral): “Although high-accuracy solutions exist, such as FTSP [Mar´ oti et al. 2004], our approach is simple and provides suf.cient precision for both time-stamping and duty-cycling.”
• Average TimeSynch: A consensus-based protocol for clock synchronization in wireless sensor networks (2011, background): “This experiment compared the performance of the proposed ATS protocol with the FTSP by [16], for which there is a freely available implementation for TinyOS in [9].”
• Efficient network flooding and time synchronization with Glossy (2011, methodology): “Their PulseSync protocol achieves a higher accuracy than FTSP and a flooding latency below one second.”
• A unifying link abstraction for wireless sensor networks (2005, background): “Time synchronization services [33, 11] are usually situated above the link layer, however, MAC-layer timestamping [17] greatly improves precision [31] by providing microsecond resolution of the start-of-frame delimiter.”
• Real-Time Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (2016, methodology): “The clocks of all the motes in the network are synchronized using Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol (FTSP) [20] during a Sync window.”
• Research Directions for the Internet of Things (2014, background): “The most common (and simple) example of this deterioration problem is with clock synchronization [18].”
• Firefly-inspired sensor network synchronicity with realistic radio effects (2005, methodology): “We believe that the accuracy can be increased to tens of microseconds by eliminating errors in our evaluation methodology and by using a better optimized MAC-layer delay estimation (as used in FTSP [9]).”
• System architecture of a wireless body area sensor network for ubiquitous health monitoring (2005, methodology): “We address the issue by employing a modified version of the Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol (FTSP) developed at Vanderbilt University [11].”
• Radio interferometric geolocation (2005, methodology): “It was shown in [ 15 ] that it is possible to set up synchronization points this way with microsecond accuracy on the MICA2 platform.”
• MMSN: Multi-Frequency Media Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks (2006, background): “To provide efficient broadcast support, nodes are time synchronized [44] during media access.”
• Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Urban Space Utilization with Renewable Wireless Sensor Network (2016, methodology): “Therefore, a TimeSync module is implemented to achieve a data synchronization of the local clocks of the server for multiple participating sensor nodes [3].”
• Time Synchronization for High Latency Acoustic Networks (2006, methodology): “Many time synchronization protocols for sensor networks have been proposed recently [7], [6], [8], [9].”
• Ultra-low power time synchronization using passive radio receivers (2011, methodology): “Instead of measuring the RTT, Maroti et al. use MAC layer time stamping on both the sender and receiver nodes in FTSP [ 24 ].”
• Wireless sensor networks for personal health monitoring: Issues and an implementation (2006, methodology): “One of the key protocols for time synchronization in WSNs is the Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol (FTSP) developed at Vanderbilt University [29].”
• Gradient clock synchronization in wireless sensor networks (2009, background): “Current state-of-the-art multi-hop clock synchronization protocols such as FTSP [14] are designed to optimize the global skew.”
• Clock Synchronization of Wireless Sensor Networks (2011, methodology): “This is the idea behind the flooding time synchronization protocol (FTSP) [5].”
• SensorScope: Out-of-the-Box Environmental Monitoring (2008, background): “Although some high-accuracy solutions exist, such as FTSP [8], our approach is simple and provides sufficient precision for both time-stamping and duty-cycling.”