Journal of Xidian University ›› 2016, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 105-110+134.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2016.04.019

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Distributed synchronization protocol for wireless sensor networks

WANG Jing;ZHANG Shuai;GAO Dan;WANG Yingguan   

  1. (Key Lab. of Wireless Sensor Network and Communication, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai  201899, China)
  • Received:2015-04-13 Online:2016-08-20 Published:2016-10-12

Abstract:

Distributed time synchronization and distributed data synchronization are proposed for the synchronization problem in wireless sensor networks. The former requires the cluster head network to execute local information exchange, and it adopts low-pass filtering to remove the noise interference. The latter provides network-wide data mean to nodes, and it requires the cluster head network to execute the proportion consistency algorithm, in which the number of nodes within a cluster is introduced during the iterative process. Experimental results show that the distributed time synchronization maintains anti-noise performance, and that the algorithm converges fast in the earlier stage. Grid-like network and random network experiments show that distributed time synchronization and distributed data synchronization have a low communication overhead, and their convergence rates are faster than that of general data synchronization.

Key words: wireless sensor networks, synchronization, clustering, communication cost, convergence speed