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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2013.38B.7.564

A Mechanism of Clock Synchronization for Wireless Networked Control System  

Do, Trong-Hop (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부 통신망 설계 및 분석 연구실)
Quan, Wenji (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부 통신망 설계 및 분석 연구실)
Yoo, Myungsik (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부 통신망 설계 및 분석 연구실)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.38B, no.7, 2013 , pp. 564-571 More about this Journal
Abstract
Wireless network has been used in many applications due to its advantages such as convenience, mobility, productivity, easy deployment, easy expandability and low cost. When it comes to stability, wireless network still shows its limitation which makes it difficult to be used for real-time control system. One of the first problems of using wireless network for control system is clock synchronization. There have been synchronization schemes proposed for wired networked control system as well as wireless network. But these should not be applied directly in wireless network control system. In this paper, we point out the importance of clock synchronization in wireless network control system. Then based on the characteristic of wireless networked control system, we propose a clock synchronization scheme for it. Furthermore, we simulate our scheme and compare with previous synchronization scheme in wired and wireless environments.
Keywords
Wireless Network; Synchronization; Wireless Control System; Clock Synchronization;
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