Dynamic flooding time synchronisation protocol for WSNs

  • Jonathan Shannon
  • , Hugh Melvin
  • , Antonio G. Ruzzelli

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Abstract

This paper describes and validates an extension to the widely used Flooding Time Synchronisation Protocol (FTSP) namely Dynamic Flooding Time Synchronisation Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. The extension enhances FTSP by dynamically optimising communication exchange with the dual aim of conserving energy whilst improving accuracy. This optimisation is realised by altering the transmission rate of motes based on real-time monitoring and the WSN application accuracy requirements. The proposed mechanism, thus, eliminates the need with FTSP to determine and pre-configure a suitable transmission interval for a particular environment. Our results show that the proposed protocol extension can perform as well as FTSP in a stable temperature environment and can achieve similar accuracies with a much reduced (up to 75 percent) number of transmissions in an environment whereby motes are exposed to temperature fluctuations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012
Pages365-371
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012 - Anaheim, CA, United States
Duration: 3 Dec 20127 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
ISSN (Print)2334-0983
ISSN (Electronic)2576-6813

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnaheim, CA
Period3/12/127/12/12

Keywords

  • networks
  • sensor
  • synchronisation
  • time
  • wireless

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