Revisiting Global Time Synchronization
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Zhao, Xiwei; Ganapathy, Vinayak; Pissinou, Niki; Makki, Kia
- Source
- IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference Global Telecommunications Conference, 2007. GLOBECOM '07. IEEE. :1058-1063 Nov, 2007
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Aerospace
Mobile ad hoc networks
Clocks
Synchronization
Convergence
Stochastic processes
Ad hoc networks
Topology
Upper bound
Information technology
Educational institutions
- Language
- ISSN
- 1930-529X
A comparison between global and local time synchronization when applying beacon mechanism of IEEE 802.11 Time Synchronization Function (TSF) to MANETs (Multi-hop ad hoc network) is presented. The evaluation has been carried out with reference to convergence of time while providing robustness towards mobility and stochastic time-delay. The focus is to demonstrate that in most MANET implementations, global time synchronization strategies are physically more pertinent and attain faster convergence than local time synchronization strategies - the more traditional time synchronization strategies for MANETs.