TY - GEN
T1 - HRTS
T2 - 5th International ICST Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, ADHOCNETS 2013
AU - Ardakani, Saeid Pourroostaei
AU - Padget, Julian
AU - De Vos, Marina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Time synchronization plays an important role in the performance of wireless sensor networks. It can enhance the throughput and the lifetime of the network by improving the energy-efficiency, the freshness of collected data and reducing the network traffic and message conflicts. Due to the constraints on sensor nodes’ energy resources and the vulnerability of the distributed infrastructure of wireless networks, an efficient, scalable and accurate time synchronization protocol is desirable. This paper presents an accurate reactive protocol, named HRTS, that synchronizes the sensor nodes’ clock based on the node’s demand. It minimizes the synchronization region dynamically to the set of nodes which request synchronization. HRTS improves the accuracy of the synchronization procedure by measuring time parameters accurately and removing delays accordingly. Compared with the conventional time synchronization protocols like PCTS and TPSN, HRTS also reduces energy consumption by decreasing the traffic overheads especially when the network is not very dense.
AB - Time synchronization plays an important role in the performance of wireless sensor networks. It can enhance the throughput and the lifetime of the network by improving the energy-efficiency, the freshness of collected data and reducing the network traffic and message conflicts. Due to the constraints on sensor nodes’ energy resources and the vulnerability of the distributed infrastructure of wireless networks, an efficient, scalable and accurate time synchronization protocol is desirable. This paper presents an accurate reactive protocol, named HRTS, that synchronizes the sensor nodes’ clock based on the node’s demand. It minimizes the synchronization region dynamically to the set of nodes which request synchronization. HRTS improves the accuracy of the synchronization procedure by measuring time parameters accurately and removing delays accordingly. Compared with the conventional time synchronization protocols like PCTS and TPSN, HRTS also reduces energy consumption by decreasing the traffic overheads especially when the network is not very dense.
KW - End-to-end delay
KW - On-demand synchronization
KW - Time synchronization protocol
KW - Wireless sensor networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929952049&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-04105-6_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-04105-6_4
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84929952049
SN - 9783319041049
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
SP - 47
EP - 62
BT - Ad Hoc Networks - 5th International ICST Conference ADHOCNETS 2013, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Bellavista, Paolo
A2 - Mellouk, Abdelhamid
A2 - Sherif, Mostafa Hashem
A2 - Li, Jun
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 16 October 2013 through 18 October 2013
ER -
