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Time synchronization is one of the most important premises for many applications in wireless sensor networks, including data fusion, target tracking, military surveillance, etc. Existing protocols generally suffered from higher energy consumption, worse accuracy or applicable only in small wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we propose a novel cluster based time synchronization method for large-scale wireless sensor networks. First, a cluster tree is constructed as the backbone. Then, after network clustering is completed, different time synchronization mechanisms are applied within cluster head nodes and cluster members, respectively. The theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively reduce energy consumption comparing to existing protocols, while it also achieves the high accuracy of time synchronization.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61103216), the Natural Science Foundation of HuBei Province of China (No. 2011CDB458), the Natural Science Foundation of HuBei Province of China (No.2013CFB295), and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 20110141120038).
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Zhang, J., Lin, S., Liu, D. (2014). Cluster-Based Time Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Sun, Xh., et al. Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8630. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11197-1_55
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