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Rapid developments in the areas of sensor design, information technologies, and wireless networks have caused the wireless sensor network (WSN) emerges as a key role in many fields of science and industry. Time synchronization is essential in WSN to ensure all nodes in the WSN are synchronized and coordinated. In this paper, a brief introduction of WSN is given. Then, this paper reviews the widely discussed time synchronization protocols developed in the past and compares the protocols in two group, centralized and distributed.
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Koo, Y.C., Mahyuddin, M.N. (2017). Brief Reviews: Time Synchronization Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network—Centralized Versus Distributed. In: Ibrahim, H., Iqbal, S., Teoh, S., Mustaffa, M. (eds) 9th International Conference on Robotic, Vision, Signal Processing and Power Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 398. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1721-6_47
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