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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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TL;DR: Three synchronization methods based on NTP (network time protocol), on GPS (global positioning system), and on IEEE 1588 standard are described and compared showing the advantages and disadvantages of the analyzed methods.
Abstract: Nowadays, the evaluation of performance measurement in computer networks is an important issue. To ensure the quality of service of the network communication, one of the most important network performance parameters is the one-way delay (OWD). For accurate OWD estimation, it is essential to consider some parameters that can influence the measure, such as the operating system and, in particular, the threads, which are concurrent with the measurement application. Moreover, OWD estimation is not an easy task, because it can be affected by synchronization uncertainties. This paper aims to review the different solutions proposed in the scientific literature for OWD measurement. These solutions adopt different methods to guarantee a reasonable clock synchronization based on the Network Time Protocol, the Global Positioning System, and the IEEE 1588 Standard. These different approaches are critically reviewed, showing their advantages and disadvantages.

116 citations


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TL;DR: Two different methods for the control over a network, adaptive Smith predictor approach and robust control based approach, which are imposed by the accessible information about the network are proposed.

104 citations

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22 Aug 2016
TL;DR: Datacenter Time Protocol is presented, a clock synchronization protocol that does not use packets at all, but is able to achieve nanosecond precision and can be better than 4T D + 8Tnanoseconds.
Abstract: In this paper, we present Datacenter Time Protocol (DTP), a clock synchronization protocol that does not use packets at all, but is able to achieve nanosecond precision. In essence, DTP uses the physical layer of network devices to implement a decentralized clock synchronization protocol. By doing so, DTP eliminates most non-deterministic elements in clock synchronization protocols. Further, DTP uses control messages in the physical layer for communicating hundreds of thousands of protocol messages without interfering with higher layer packets. Thus, DTP has virtually zero overhead since it does not add load at layers 2 or higher layers. It does require replacing network devices, which can be done incrementally. We demonstrate that the precision provided by DTP is bounded by 25.6 nanoseconds for directly connected nodes, and in general, is bounded by 4TD where D is the longest distance between any two servers in a network in terms of number of hops and T is the period of the fastest clock (≈ 6.4ns). Moreover, in software, a DTP daemon can access the DTP clock with usually better than 4T (≈ 25.6ns) precision. As a result, the end-to-end precision can be better than 4T D + 8T nanoseconds. By contrast, the precision of the state of the art protocol is not bounded: The precision is hundreds of nanoseconds when a network is idle and can decrease to hundreds of microseconds when a network is heavily congested.

75 citations

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TL;DR: The analytic formulas provide a theoretical ground for understanding the simulation results, some of which are presented, as well as the guidelines for choosing both system and control parameters.
Abstract: This paper analyzes the factors that affect the synchronization performance in peer-to-peer precision time protocol (PTP). We first study the influence of frequency drift in the absence of jitter and compare the gravity of the master drift with that of the slave drift. Then, we study the influence of jitter under the assumption of constant frequencies and the effect of averaging. The analytic formulas provide a theoretical ground for understanding the simulation results, some of which are presented, as well as the guidelines for choosing both system and control parameters.

72 citations


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  • ...The authors of [8] introduced the transparent clock (TC) concept, in which intermediate bridges are treated as network components with known delay....

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TL;DR: This paper deals with a displacement sensor network that is built over Ethernet and synchronized according to IEEE 1588, and attention is focused on the IEEE1588 implementation.
Abstract: Distribution of precise time reference in an Ethernet network allows the implementation of distributed measurement systems, overcoming the limitations of a complex architecture. This paper deals with a displacement sensor network that is built over Ethernet and synchronized according to IEEE 1588. Measurement devices share the same time reference, enabling accurate calculation of cross-derived quantities (multidimensional speed and acceleration). In this paper, a description of the sensor architecture is given, and attention is focused on the IEEE 1588 implementation. In particular, the proposed low-cost system does not use any dedicated synchronization hardware, but it can reduce the deviation from time reference down to 20 .

67 citations

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TL;DR: OMNeT++ is fully programmable and modular, and it was designed from the ground up to support modeling very large networks built from reusable model components.
Abstract: The paper introduces OMNeT++, a C++-based discrete event simulation package primarily targeted at simulating computer networks and other distributed systems. OMNeT++ is fully programmable and modular, and it was designed from the ground up to support modeling very large networks built from reusable model components. Large emphasis was placed also on easy traceability and debuggability of simulation models: one can execute the simulation under a powerful graphical user interface, which makes the internals of a simulation model fully visible to the person running the simulation: it displays the network graphics, animates the message flow and lets the user peek into objects and variables within the model. These features make OMNeT++ a good candidate for both research and educational purposes. The OMNeT++ simulation engine can be easily embedded into larger applications. OMNeT++ is opensource, free for non-profit use, and it has a fairly large user

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TL;DR: The NTP synchronization system is described, along with performance data which show that timekeeping accuracy throughout most portions of the Internet can be ordinarily maintained to within a few milliseconds, even in cases of failure or disruption of clocks, time servers, or networks.
Abstract: The network time protocol (NTP), which is designed to distribute time information in a large, diverse system, is described. It uses a symmetric architecture in which a distributed subnet of time servers operating in a self-organizing, hierarchical configuration synchronizes local clocks within the subnet and to national time standards via wire, radio, or calibrated atomic clock. The servers can also redistribute time information within a network via local routing algorithms and time daemons. The NTP synchronization system, which has been in regular operation in the Internet for the last several years, is described, along with performance data which show that timekeeping accuracy throughout most portions of the Internet can be ordinarily maintained to within a few milliseconds, even in cases of failure or disruption of clocks, time servers, or networks. >

2,114 citations


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  • ...The effectiveness of this extension will be evaluated by simulation technique....

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  • ...This due to a decrease in price provoked by the office Ethernet market, high bandwidth, switching technology [3], priority features [4], full duplex operation [2], availability of Ethernet bridges as well as Ethernet-enabled products fulfilling industrial environmental requirements (e.g. [15])....

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27 Sep 2004
TL;DR: A protocol is provided in this standard that enables precise synchronization of clocks in measurement and control systems implemented with technologies such as network communication, local computing, and distributed objects.
Abstract: A protocol is provided in this standard that enables precise synchronization of clocks in measurement and control systems implemented with technologies such as network communication, local computing, and distributed objects. The protocol is applicable to systems communicating via packet networks. Heterogeneous systems are enabled that include clocks of various inherent precision, resolution, and stability to synchronize. System-wide synchronization accuracy and precision in the sub-microsecond range are supported with minimal network and local clock computing resources. Simple systems are installed and operated without requiring the management attention of users because the default behavior of the protocol allows for it.

1,428 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
05 Dec 2002
TL;DR: This paper discusses the major features and design objectives of the IEEE-1588 standard, designed to serve the clock synchronization needs of industrial systems, and recent performance results of prototype implementations of this standard in an Ethernet environment are presented.
Abstract: This paper discusses the major features and design objectives of the IEEE-1588 standard. Recent performance results of prototype implementations of this standard in an Ethernet environment are presented. Potential areas of application of this standard are outlined.

1,112 citations

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01 Apr 1994
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a series of incremental improvements in system hardware and software which result in significantly better accuracy and stability, especially in primary time servers directly synchronized to radio or satellite time services.
Abstract: This paper builds on previous work involving the Network Time Protocol, which is used to synchronize computer clocks in the Internet. It describes a series of incremental improvements in system hardware and software which result in significantly better accuracy and stability, especially in primary time servers directly synchronized to radio or satellite time services. These improvements include novel interfacing techniques and operating system features. The goal in this effort is to improve the synchronization accuracy for fast computers and networks from the tens of milliseconds regime of the present technology to the submillisecond regime of the future.In order to assess how well these improvements work, a series of experiments is described in which the error contributions of various modern Unix system hardware and software components are calibrated. These experiments define the accuracy and stability expectations of the computer clock and establish its design parameters with respect to time and frequency error tolerances. The paper concludes that submillisecond accuracies are indeed practical, but that further improvements will be possible only through the use of temperature-compensated local clock oscillators.

227 citations