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ESTS: An Error Statistic Based Time Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Computational Intelligence (ICIC 2006)

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Time synchronization in wireless sensor networks is critical for providing accurate timing service to many applications. This paper presents an Error Statistic based Time Synchronization protocol (ESTS) for wireless sensor networks. ESTS uses a flooding mechanism for basic global time synchronization and delay measurement, and achieves a fine grained synchronization through compensating per hop delay to all the nodes. It is a light weight mechanism for its simplicity in both computation and communication. Experiments show that ESTS obtains a better performance in energy efficiency than most in-situ time synchronization protocols in the same precision level.

This work is supported by National Natural Science foundation of China under grants No.60272078 and No.60373049.

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  1. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences P.O.Box 8718, Beijing 100080, Beijing, China

    Limin Sun, Haidong Wang & Tingxin Yan

  2. Grade 04 Finance Department of College of Economy, Centre University for Nationalities Beijing 100081, Beijing, China

    Jingjing Liu

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  1. Institute of Intelligent Machines , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Anhui, Hefei, China

    De-Shuang Huang

  2. Queen’s University , Belfast, UK

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Sun, L., Wang, H., Yan, T., Liu, J. (2006). ESTS: An Error Statistic Based Time Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Huang, DS., Li, K., Irwin, G.W. (eds) Computational Intelligence. ICIC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4114. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37275-2_165

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