Fast Synchronisation Protocol with Collision Handling for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (2016)

Conference Paper

Belghith, Abdelfettah . 2016

• Conference Name: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
• Conference Location: Doha, Qatar
• Conference Date: Saturday, April 30, 2016
• Sponsoring Organization: IEEE

Publication Abstract

In Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, synchronization is a prerequisite to many basic operations such as frequency hopping, power saving, free contention channel access, clustering and security. Clock synchronization requires the availability of a common time reference for all mobile nodes. However, a synchronization algorithm cannot converge quickly to a stable point without considering the effects of collisions and channel interference inherent to wireless environments. In this paper, we propose a Fast Synchronization Protocol with Collision Handling for multi hop wireless ad hoc networks. Performance evaluation results show the ability of our algorithm to improve the convergence time and to assure the networkwide synchronization accuracy even in highly dynamic scenarios.