Time synchronization plays a crucial role in every distributed system and is particularly critical in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), composed of several motes connected with different sensors. For health status monitoring applications using a star-topology to reduce the number of employed units, often the master node also integrates some sensors. In this paper we discuss in detail the issues associated with the inclusion of the master in the synchronization procedure, proposing a strategy that guarantees the complete master/slave synchronization. The proposed technique can be employed concurrently with every protocol which does not embed network time synchronization features.
Master-Slave Mutual Time Synchronization in a Wireless Body Area Network / Coviello, Giuseppe; Avitabile, Gianfranco; Talarico, Claudio; Wang-Roveda, Janet M.; Florio, Antonello. - 2022-August:(2022), pp. 1-4. (Intervento presentato al convegno 65th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2022 tenutosi a jpn nel 2022) [10.1109/mwscas54063.2022.9859540].
Master-Slave Mutual Time Synchronization in a Wireless Body Area Network
Coviello, Giuseppe;Avitabile, Gianfranco;Talarico, Claudio;Florio, Antonello
2022
Abstract
Time synchronization plays a crucial role in every distributed system and is particularly critical in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), composed of several motes connected with different sensors. For health status monitoring applications using a star-topology to reduce the number of employed units, often the master node also integrates some sensors. In this paper we discuss in detail the issues associated with the inclusion of the master in the synchronization procedure, proposing a strategy that guarantees the complete master/slave synchronization. The proposed technique can be employed concurrently with every protocol which does not embed network time synchronization features.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
