A New Distributed Approach for Achieving Clock Synchronization in Heterogeneous Networks
Paper i proceeding, 2011

Heterogeneous networks have the potential to improve coverage, throughput, and energy efficiency of wireless networks through the use of specialized cellular structures, in particular femtocells and macrocells. However, to reduce interference between different cells, ensure smooth hand-offs from cell to cell, and achieve seamless operation the overall network needs to be synchronized. In this paper a new distributed clock synchronization scheme for heterogeneous networks is proposed that employs the clock drift information available at user-equipments (UEs) to achieve synchronization between non-interacting femtocells and macrocells. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can significantly reduce the clock drift between macrocells and femtocells and result in timing synchronization throughout the network without introducing significant overhead.

Författare

Hani Mehrpouyan

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Steven D. Blostein

Tommy Svensson

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

IEEE Globecom 2011

1930-529X (ISSN)

5-
978-1-4244-9268-8 (ISBN)

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

Signalbehandling

Annan elektroteknik och elektronik

ISBN

978-1-4244-9268-8

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