International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 36 - Number 11 |
Year of Publication: 2011 |
Authors: Amit Nayyer, Meenakshi Nayyer, Lalit Kr. Awasthi |
10.5120/4533-6429 |
Amit Nayyer, Meenakshi Nayyer, Lalit Kr. Awasthi . A Comparative study of Time Synchronization Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network. International Journal of Computer Applications. 36, 11 ( December 2011), 13-19. DOI=10.5120/4533-6429
Wireless sensors network is a type of the ad-hoc network. It is comprised of many sensors which are interlinked with each other for performing the same function collectively such as monitoring the weather conditions, temperature, different kind of vibrations and sound etc. Any distributed system requires time synchronization. In particular, time Synchronization is extremely important for Wireless sensor network applications e.g. for data fusion, TDMA schedules, synchronizes sleep periods, etc.