Journal on Communications ›› 2016, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 1-9.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2016001

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Time synchronization algorithm based on mobility model for underwater sensor networks

qiang WANGHui,xiu WENXiu,yu LINJun,sheng FENGGuang,wu LYUHong   

  1. College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Eng neering University, Harbin 150001, China
  • Online:2016-01-25 Published:2016-01-27
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Priority Development Area);The Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China;The Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province;The Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities;The Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities

Abstract:

With the characteristics of high transmission delay and mobility, distributed time synchronization of underwa-ter sensor networks can be very challenging. The existing works cannot get high accuracy, because most of them ignore the long transmission latency, or dynamic changing tra ission delay caused by the mobility. A mobility model was built considering the effect of mobility and long transmission latency on time synchronization, and a time synchronization parameters equation was formed according to the mobili model. Thus, based on the equation, a time synchronization algorithm (MM-sync) was proposed. The experiment results show that MM-sync can reduce the consumption of energy, and can get higher accuracy than state-of-art solutions in high density underwater sensor networks with rapid movement.

Key words: sensor networks, underwater environment, high latency propagation networks, time synchronization, mobil-ity model

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