An Efficient Time Synchronization Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks with Capability of Prediction

Xuandi Sun; Xiaohong Shen; Weigang Bai; Ling Wang

doi:10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604909

An Efficient Time Synchronization Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks with Capability of Prediction

Xuandi Sun
, Xiaohong Shen
, Weigang Bai
, Ling Wang

School of Marine Science and Technology

Northwestern Polytechnical University Xian

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Abstract

Time synchronization protocol plays an important role in underwater acoustic (UWA) networks. Nodes need to be coordinated to work as a whole and achieve their functions as sensation and actuation. Many existing time synchronization protocols for UWA networks have been developed to achieve this goal. However, existing protocols can't meet needs of UWA networks in accuracy and energy cost. In this paper, we propose an efficient time synchronization protocol (EF-Sync) for UWA networks. It can fully utilize exchanged messages to make a bidirectional error estimation of clock skew error. And meanwhile, with the help of prediction by using the exponential smoothing algorithm which can be adjusted according to the channel quality, EF-Sync can compensate the clock offset with high accuracy. The simulation results show that it achieves a remarkable higher accuracy with low energy cost.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538648148
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604909
State	Published - 7 Jan 2019
Event	OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEANS 2018 - Charleston, United States Duration: 22 Oct 2018 → 25 Oct 2018

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Name	OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018

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Conference	OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEANS 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Charleston
Period	22/10/18 → 25/10/18

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Bidirectional error estimation
Exponential smoothing method
Underwater acoustic (UWA) networks

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Sun, X, Shen, X, Bai, W & Wang, L 2019, An Efficient Time Synchronization Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks with Capability of Prediction. in OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018., 8604909, OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEANS 2018, Charleston, United States, 22/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604909

An Efficient Time Synchronization Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks with Capability of Prediction. / Sun, Xuandi; Shen, Xiaohong; Bai, Weigang et al.
OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. 8604909 (OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018).

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