A Clock Synchronization Algorithm for Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks |
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Authors: | Jang-Ping Sheu Chih-Min Chao Wei-Kai Hu Ching-Wen Sun |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Jhongli, 32001, Taiwan;(2) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, 20224, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | In multihop wireless ad hoc networks, it is important that all mobile hosts are synchronized. Synchronization is necessary
for power management and for frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) operations. IEEE 802.11 standards specify a clock synchronization
protocol but this protocol suffers from the scalability problem due to its inefficiency contention mechanism. In this paper,
we propose an automatic self-time-correcting procedure (ASP) to achieve clock synchronization in a multihop environment. Our
ASP has two features. First, a faster host has higher priority to send its timing information out than a slower one. Second,
after collecting enough timing information, a slower host can synchronize to the faster one by self-correcting its timer periodically
(which makes it becoming a faster host). Simulation results show that our ASP decreases 60% the average maximum clock drift
as compared to the IEEE 802.11 and reduces 99% the number of asynchronism in a large-scale multihop wireless ad hoc networks. |
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Keywords: | Clock synchronization IEEE 802 11 multihop wireless ad hoc networks |
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