Research on Timestamp Synchronization for Network Confrontation

Synchronization is the fundamental problem of confrontation systems for the reason that the communication pairs should keep pace with each other during traffic jam attacks or eavesdropping. The paper focuses on a strategy of timestamp synchronization which requires no precise clock but a simple timestamp instead to generate right communication information. Thus it can be competent for large-scale network confrontation. We firstly perform a formal analysis of timestamp strategy, and then two implementation schemes of broadcast/multicast and public service are discussed in detail. Finally, a lightweight public service scheme is established for timestamp strategy. Our work performs a theoretical analysis of the feasibility and superiority of the timestamp synchronization on network confrontation.