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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2015.4.9.385

A Time Synchronization Protocol for Energy-Constrained Wireless Networks  

Bae, Shi-Kyu (동양대학교 사이버보안학과)
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KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering / v.4, no.9, 2015 , pp. 385-392 More about this Journal
Abstract
In IoT(Internet of Things), it is important for wireless networks to communicate data created among resource-constrained wireless nodes, where time synchronization is needed for meaningful data creation and transmission. Time Synchronization by flooding is one of the mostly used protocols for WSN(Wireless Sensor Networks). Even though this type of scheme has some advantages over other types (i.e. a simple algorithm and independency of topology and so on), too many data transmission is required, leading to large power consumption. So, reducing transmission data is an important issue for energy efficiency in this kind of networks. In this paper, a new Flooding-based time synchronization protocol is proposed to use energy efficiently by reducing a transmitted traffic. The proposed scheme's performance has been evaluated and compared with an representative scheme, FTSP(Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol) by simulation. The results are shown that the proposed scheme is better than FTSP.
Keywords
IoT(Internet of Things); Time Synchronization; Flooding; Wireless Sensor Network; Energy Efficiency;
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