Synchronization in wireless sensor networks : parameter estimation, performance benchmarks and protocols / Erchin Serpedin and Qasim M. Chaudhari.

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Introduction -- Signal models for time synchronization -- Time synchronization protocols -- Fundamental approaches to time synchronization -- Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation (MVUE) of clock offset -- Clock offset and skew estimation -- Computationally simplified schemes for estimation of clock offset and skew -- Pairwise Broadcast Synchronization (PBS) -- Energy-efficient estimation of clock offset for inactive nodes -- Some improved and generalized estimation schemes for clock synchronization of inactive nodes -- Adaptive multi-hop time synchronization (AMTS) -- Clock drift estimation for achieving long-term synchronization -- Joint synchronization of clock offset and skew in a receiver-receiver protocol -- Robust estimation of clock offset -- Conclusions anf future directions.

Wireless sensor networks are set to play a key role in a wide range of civilian and military applications, with tiny sensors connected through wireless links performing various sensing, computing, communication, and control tasks in highly distributed systems. This book presents a critical element in the deployment of wireless sensor networks: the process of synchronization. It summarizes the most important clock synchronization protocols proposed for wireless sensor networks with special emphasis placed on deriving efficient clock offset estimation schemes and performance benchmarks. Graduate students of electrical and computer engineering and computer science will find this a valuable resource, as will engineers who are interested in designing efficient clock synchronization algorithms and improving the performance of existing synchronization protocols.