13 research outputs found
Adaptive Synchronization of Robotic Sensor Networks
The main focus of recent time synchronization research is developing
power-efficient synchronization methods that meet pre-defined accuracy
requirements. However, an aspect that has been often overlooked is the high
dynamics of the network topology due to the mobility of the nodes. Employing
existing flooding-based and peer-to-peer synchronization methods, are networked
robots still be able to adapt themselves and self-adjust their logical clocks
under mobile network dynamics? In this paper, we present the application and
the evaluation of the existing synchronization methods on robotic sensor
networks. We show through simulations that Adaptive Value Tracking
synchronization is robust and efficient under mobility. Hence, deducing the
time synchronization problem in robotic sensor networks into a dynamic value
searching problem is preferable to existing synchronization methods in the
literature.Comment: First International Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks part of
Cyber-Physical Systems Week, Berlin, Germany, 14 April 201
Node Heterogeneity for Energy Efficient Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Network
AbstractThe energy of the node in the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is scare and causes the variation in the lifetime of the network. Also, the throughput and delay of the network depend on how long the network sustains i.e. energy consumption. One way to increase the sustainability of network is the introduction of heterogeneous nodes regarding energy, and the other is to synchronize the local clock of the node with the global clock of the network. In this context, the paper proposes Node Heterogeneity aware Energy Efficient Synchronization Algorithm (NHES). It works on the formation of cluster-based spanning tree (SPT). In the initial stage of the algorithm, the nodes are grouped into the cluster and form the tree. The nodes in the cluster and cluster heads in the network are synchronized with the notion of the global time scale of the network. Also, clock skews may cause the errors and be one of the sources of delay and energy consumption. To minimize the energy consumptions and delay, NHES synchronizes the time slots using TDMA based MAC protocol. The results show that level by level synchronization used in NHES is energy efficient and has less delay as compared to the state-of-the-art solutions