A Practical Distributed Lightweight Multi-Hop Time Synchronization Algorithm for Linear Wireless Sensor Networks Implemented on a PIC Based System with Realistic Experimental Analysis

Ahmet ERPAY; Md Abdullah AL IMRAN; Ali KARA

doi:https://doi.org/10.16984/saufenbilder.710984

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A Practical Distributed Lightweight Multi-Hop Time Synchronization Algorithm for Linear Wireless Sensor Networks Implemented on a PIC Based System with Realistic Experimental Analysis

Authors:

Ahmet ERPAY | Md Abdullah AL IMRAN | Ali KARA

Main Topics:

Applied physics

Journal:

Sakarya University Journal of Science 2020 Vol.24 Issue 6, pp.1198-1209

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000556579

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.16984/saufenbilder.710984

Abstract:

 

Time synchronization is fundamental in the distributed networked systems, especially in Wireless Sensor Networks where a global time is essential to make sense of the events like collection of data and scheduled sleep/wake-up of nodes. There exists numerous time synchronization algorithms and techniques in the literature. Nonetheless, these proposed methods lack realistic experimentation of the synchronization process which is vital from the realization point of view. This study aims to bridge that gap by presenting a distributed lightweight time synchronization protocol implemented on an inexpensive PIC platform. Furthermore, PIC-based systems hadn’t been investigated before and gives an idea of the simplicity of the algorithm. Experimental analysis was done to see the performance of the protocol. The core motivation of the experiments was to the study the impact of the environment (e.g. indoor, outdoors, temperature variations and interference) on the synchronization. Our findings show that temperature indeed impedes the synchronization accuracy.

Article Details

A Practical Distributed Lightweight Multi-Hop Time Synchronization Algorithm for Linear Wireless Sensor Networks Implemented on a PIC Based System with Realistic Experimental Analysis

Authors: Ahmet ERPAY | Md Abdullah AL IMRAN | Ali KARA

Main Topics: Applied physics

Journal: Sakarya University Journal of Science 2020 Vol.24 Issue 6, pp.1198-1209

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 11/2020

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000556579

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16984/saufenbilder.710984

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Authors:

Ahmet ERPAY | Md Abdullah AL IMRAN | Ali KARA

Main Topics:

Applied physics

Journal:

Sakarya University Journal of Science 2020 Vol.24 Issue 6, pp.1198-1209

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2020

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000556579

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.16984/saufenbilder.710984