@inproceedings{d26fec36519d4694974e6e4e29cfa32d,
title = "A model-based approach to clock synchronization",
abstract = "In a network of clocks, we consider a given reference node to determine the time evolution t. We introduce and analyze a stochastic model for clocks, in which the relative speedup of a clock, called the skew, is characterized by some given stochastic process. We study the problem of synchronizing clocks in a network, which amounts to estimating the instantaneous relative skews and relative offsets by exchange of time-stamped packets across the links of the network. We present a scheme for obtaining measurements in a communication link. We develop an algorithm for optimal filtering of measurements across a link (i, j) in order to estimate the logarithm of the relative speedup of node j with respect to node i, and we further study some implementation issues. We also present a scheme for pairwise offset estimation based on skew estimates. We study the properties of our algorithms and provide theoretical guarantees on their performance. We also develop an online centralized model-based asynchronous algorithm for optimal filtering of the time-stamps in the entire network, and an efficient distributed suboptimal scheme.",
keywords = "Clock Offsets, Clock Skews, Clock Synchronization, Distributed Systems, Filtering and Estimation, Network Delays, Networked control, Sensor Networks",
author = "Freris, {Nikolaos M.} and Borkar, {Vivek S.} and Kumar, {P. R.}",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/CDC.2009.5399516",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781424438716",
series = "Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "5744--5749",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held jointly with 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference, CDC/CCC 2009",
note = "48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held jointly with 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference, CDC/CCC 2009 ; Conference date: 15-12-2009 Through 18-12-2009",
}