Novel Clock Phase Offset and Skew Estimation Using Two-Way Timing Message Exchanges for Wireless Sensor Networks
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...Besides optimal MLEs, suboptimal but lower complexity algorithms were also reported in [21] and [22]....
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...Depending on whether the fixed delay s is known or unknown, themaximum likelihood estimator (MLE) and the corresponding Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for joint skew and offset estimation under Gaussian variable delays were derived in [21] and [22], respectively....
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...Under the assumption that Xk and Yk are independent and identically distributed zero mean Gaussian RVs, it can be shown that the MLE for h is given by [21]...
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...The above procedure can be mathematically modeled as [21]...
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...In [13], the joint maximum likelihood estimator of clock offset and skew for normal delays was also derived....
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...In [13], the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of clock offset was found to be given by...
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...Although the effects of clock skew have not been considered herein, the clock skew estimators developed in [13] can be directly applied to the proposed PBS protocol with no modifications....
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...In WSNs, synchronization supports functions such as time-based channel sharing, power scheduling, and time-based localization in WSNs....
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...[15] made such assumption and derived the MLE for the joint estimation of clock offset β0 and clock skew β1....
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...Although another maximum-likelihood-like estimator (MLLE) that does not require knowledge of the fixed delay was also derived in [15], the performance of this estimator is not satisfactory....
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...[15] proposed subtracting Tr,1 from Tr,N to obtain Wr = Tr,N − Tr,1(r = {1, 2, 3, 4}), such that Wr does not depend on β0 and d....
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...However, the CRLB derived in [15] was based on all the time stamps {T1,i, T2,i, T3,i, T4,i}i=1, and CRLB may change according to different realizations of {T2,i, T4,i}i=1....
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...[15], and the other is a newly proposed estimator....
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