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    Time synchronization problem of wireless sensor network using maximum probability theory
    (Springer, 2018) Upadhyay, D.; Dubey, A.K.; Santhi Thilagam, P.S.
    Synchronizing time between the sensors of wireless sensor network has vital importance. It helps in maintaining a consistent and reliable frame of time across the network. Two clocks are stated to be synchronized when their frequency source runs with equal rate and their offsets are set identical. Basically, due to the manufacturing difference there is slight variation in their clock oscillator which affects the degree of frequency source and accuracy. Therefore this leads to the problem of synchronizing time between the sensor clocks. To attain time synchronization in a network typical contention-based message passing techniques are used. In this paper two-way message passing scheme is utilized. It proposes a statistical tool based on the maximum probability theory for selecting the reference clock offset for time synchronization protocols. It also proposes a subset selection algorithm to support the proposed statistical tool. The results obtained consist of the selection of most probable estimate for clock offset. The proposed algorithm utilizes the two-way message passing scheme for the exchange of timing messages within the network. The proposed algorithm is compared with the existing algorithms for estimation of clock offset. It was observed that the proposed works gives better results in terms of efficiency i.e. 99.8% efficient. © 2018, The Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM), India and The Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.
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    A statistical tool for time synchronization problem in WSN
    (Bentham Science Publishers P.O. Box 294 Bussum 1400 AG, 2019) Upadhyay, D.; Dubey, A.K.; Santhi Thilagam, P.S.
    Background: In recent research, time synchronization has a great importance in the various application of wireless sensor network. Localization, tracking, message passing using contention-based schemes and communication are some of the fields where synchronization between sensor clocks is highly required. Therefore, several algorithms were designed to achieve a rational and reliable frame of time within the wireless sensor network. Patents related to time synchronization in WSN were also analyzed. Methods: This paper discusses the powerful statistical tool using maximum probability theory for synchronizing the time within the sensor's clock. In this paper, maximum probability theory is applied to estimate the best value of clock offset between two sensor clocks. The proposed algorithm is analyzed by exchanging timing messages between nodes using two-way message exchange schemes. Results: The proposed algorithm is also implemented along with a Time-Sync Protocol for Sensor Network. It reduces error deviation from 2.32 to 0.064 ms as compared with Time-Sync Protocol for Sensor Network without proposed works. Conclusion: It was observed that for a small network, proposed work gives better and efficient results with Time-Sync Protocol for Sensor Network. © 2019 Bentham Science Publishers.