Enhancements to the time synchronization standard IEEE-1588 for a system of cascaded bridges
22 Sep 2004-pp 239-244
TL;DR: In this paper, a bypass clock instead of the boundary clock is proposed as an enhancement of the IEEE-1588 standard for bridged networks, where the local clock adjustment can be modeled by a corresponding control loop.
Abstract: The IEEE-1588 standard for a high precision time synchronization now exists since 2002. For using this standard in bridged networks a so-called boundary clock is defined, where the local clock adjustment can be modeled by a corresponding control loop. At the field level of industrial automation systems, the line topology is very important. By using Ethernet at the field level, the resulting chain of bridges leads to a cascade of control loops and may lead to instabilities and deviations of the distributed clocks, which are not acceptable. For this application a bypass clock instead of the boundary clock is proposed as an enhancement of the IEEE-1588 standard. The effectiveness of this extension to be evaluated by simulation technique.
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...However, precision errors from Boundary clocks can be cascaded to low-level components of the timing hierarchy tree, and can significantly impact the precision overall [70]....
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this article, a clock servo system is proposed using pure software-based implementation of IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) for IEEE 802.11 WLAN, which has the virtues of high synchronization accuracy, short convergence time and small deviation error.
Abstract: Clock synchronization is one of the enabling technologies for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN). It is crucial to perform applications such as data fusion, location detection and energy conservation. IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is a widely used clock synchronization protocol, but its accuracy is affected by bidirectional asymmetric delays in WLAN. A detailed analysis of the generation mechanism and statistical prop- erties of the bidirectional asymmetric delays in IEEE 802.11 WLAN is conducted firstly. Then, a Kalman filter is designed for delay filtering. And based on the Kalman filter, a clock servo system is proposed using pure software-based implementation of PTP for IEEE 802.11 WLAN. Finally, the effectiveness of the implementation is verified by experiments. Experimental results show that the imple- mentation has the virtues of high synchronization accuracy, short convergence time and small deviation error.
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: These new methods are based on the existing inference algorithms but extend them to adapt to the specific properties of applications in networked systems, and are applied to solve two practical problems: node localization and clock synchronization.
Abstract: Estimation and optimization in large networked system is not a trivial task due to the large amount of participants, the complex uncertainties and processes. Probabilistic models provide a powerful tool for organizing all sources of information and describing explicitly the statistical structure of the estimation problem. Estimation is performed by inferring the posterior probability distributions of the variables that are related to the quantities of interest, given the observation variables. The focus of this thesis is the development of distributed and approximate inference algorithms that solve the estimation problems in large networked systems. These new methods are based on the existing inference algorithms but extend them to adapt to the specific properties of applications in networked systems. The developed methods are applied to solve two practical problems: node localization and clock synchronization.
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...Using the ”transparent clock” concept [51], the synchronization procedure is as follows: • master element generates periodically Sync messages with an interval of Δc M and generates a time-stamp −→s out M (k) at the transmission....
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...Authors of [51] introduced the transparent clock (TC) concept, in which intermediate bridges are treated as network components with known delay....
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