Network synchronization and localization based on stolen signals

Christian Schindelhauer, Zvi Lotker, Johannes Wendeberg

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Abstract

We consider an anchor-free, relative localization and synchronization problem where a set of n receiver nodes and m wireless signal sources are independently, uniformly, and randomly distributed in a disk in the plane. The signals can be distinguished and their capture times can be measured. At the beginning neither the positions of the signal sources and receivers are known nor the sending moments of the signals. Now each receiver captures each signal after its constant speed journey over the unknown distance between signal source and receiver position. Given these nm capture times the task is to compute the relative distances between all synchronized receivers. In a more generalized setting the receiver nodes have no synchronized clocks and need to be synchronized from the capture times of the stolen signals.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPODC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium Principles of Distributed Computing
Pages223-224
Number of pages2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event30th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC'11, Held as Part of the 5th Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: 6 Jun 20118 Jun 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Conference

Conference30th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC'11, Held as Part of the 5th Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period6/06/118/06/11

Keywords

  • TDOA
  • localization
  • synchronization

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