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Implementation and Evaluation of a Time Synchronization Protocol for USN

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2008, 13(7), pp.213-220
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science

양도 1 Hyung-Bong Lee 2

1강릉대학교 컴퓨터공학과
2강릉원주대학교

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ABSTRACT

In a distributed processing environment composed of many independent systems connected by networks, it is very important and difficult to make time synchronization between the systems. Especially in the USN environment the time synchronization is still more difficult than in general distributed processing environment because energy is limited and communication function is feeble. Even though of these difficulties, the USN environment requires higher precision of time synchronization. One of the typical applications requesting very strict time synchronization in USN is TDMA MAC. This paper proposes and evaluates a new time synchronization protocol HTSP(Hierarchical Time Synchronization Protocol) which is an advanced version of the FTSP(Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol) published recently. The time synchronization precision of the HTSP is equal to that of the FTSP, but the energy consumption of the HTSP is lower than that of the FTSP owing to the reduced number of broadcast messages. The simulation results show that the energy consumption ot the HTSP is only 74% of that of the FTSP.

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