<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper presents SRBC, a new design for synchronous rendezvous in low-duty-cycle Wireless Sensor Network (WSN).The main idea of SRBC is utilizing the cluster, which includes a part of the sensor nodes in the WSN. Each node in a cluster alters its clock drift as well as its skew towards the central node of the cluster through exchange of their clock information with normal communication. Then it reduces the overhead of the process usual for the traditional time-stamp exchange. In different clusters, the border nodes exchange the relative clock drift as well as the skew to improve the performance during the synchronous rendezvous. Results show that the design of SRBC is practical and effective.</p></abstract>

This paper presents SRBC, a new design for synchronous rendezvous in low-duty-cycle Wireless Sensor Network (WSN).The main idea of SRBC is utilizing the cluster, which includes a part of the sensor nodes in the WSN. Each node in a cluster alters its clock drift as well as its skew towards the central node of the cluster through exchange of their clock information with normal communication. Then it reduces the overhead of the process usual for the traditional time-stamp exchange. In different clusters, the border nodes exchange the relative clock drift as well as the skew to improve the performance during the synchronous rendezvous. Results show that the design of SRBC is practical and effective.

Synchronous Rendezvous Based on Cluster in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Network

Department of Information Engineering, Chongqing City Management College, Chongqing 401331,

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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This paper presents SRBC, a new design for synchronous rendezvous in low-duty-cycle Wireless Sensor Network (WSN).The main idea of SRBC is utilizing the...

Synchronous Rendezvous Based on Cluster in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Network

Published Online: Oct 20, 2016

Page range: 88 - 96

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2016-0055

Keywords
Wireless sensor network, synchronous rendezvous, low-duty-cycle, clock drift, clock skew

© by Shuhong Cheng

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Synchronous Rendezvous Based on Cluster in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Network

Published Online: Oct 20, 2016

Page range: 88 - 96

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2016-0055

KeywordsWireless sensor network, synchronous rendezvous, low-duty-cycle, clock drift, clock skew

© by Shuhong Cheng

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Wireless sensor network, synchronous rendezvous, low-duty-cycle, clock drift, clock skew