• DocumentCode
    3518031
  • Title

    A probabilistic approach to clock synchronization of cascaded network elements

  • Author

    Na, Chongning ; Obradovic, Dragan ; Scheiterer, Ruxandra Lupas

  • Author_Institution
    Corp. Technol., Inf. & Commun., Siemens AG, Munich
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    19-24 April 2009
  • Firstpage
    1793
  • Lastpage
    1796
  • Abstract
    Precision time protocol (PTP) synchronizes clocks of networked elements by exchanging messages containing precise time-stamps. Based on the available timing information, different algorithms can be developed for the clock synchronization. This paper introduces a novel PTP-based method in which clock synchronization is formulated as a probabilistic inference problem and is solved by Kalman filtering. The performance of this approach is verified by numerical results.
  • Keywords
    Kalman filters; local area networks; probability; protocols; Kalman filter; cascaded network element; clock synchronization; precision time protocol; probabilistic approach; probabilistic inference problem; Clocks; Communications technology; Ethernet networks; Frequency synchronization; Jitter; Master-slave; Network topology; Protocols; Time measurement; Timing; Clock synchronization; Kalman filter; Precision Time Protocol; probabilistic model;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009. ICASSP 2009. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Taipei
  • ISSN
    1520-6149
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2353-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1520-6149
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4959953
  • Filename
    4959953