An Approach to Fault Tolerant Clock Synchronization for Wireless Local Area Networks (Extended Abstract)

Michael Mock 1 , Reiner Frings 1 , and Edgar Nett 2 , 1 GMD -- German Research Center for Information Technology D-53754 St. Augustin e-mail: {mock,frings}@gmd.de Phone: +49 2241 142576 Fax: +49 2241 142324 2 University of Magdeburg Institute for Distributed Systems Universitaetsplatz 2 D-39106 Magdeburg e-mail: [email protected] Phone: +49 391 67 18346 1 Introduction We are working on the development of a system architecture that enables autonomous mobile systems to cooperate in real-time using their own distributed infrastructure such as computing resources and wireless communication channels. Due to locomotion of the mobile systems, the cooperation is subject to strong real-time constraints. Furthermore, the systems share and compete for resources, e.g. network bandwidth. Our work aims at providing a hierarchy of real-time communication protocols that support the cooperation of autonomous intelligent systems. These protocols should support real-time ..