{"title":"Efficient TDMA synchronization for distributed embedded systems","authors":"Vilgot Claesson, Henrik Lönn, N. Suri","doi":"10.1109/RELDIS.2001.970769","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A desired attribute in safety critical embedded real-time systems is a system time/event synchronization capability on which predictable communication can be established. Focusing on bus-based communication protocols in TDMA environments, we present a novel, efficient, and low-cost synchronization approach with bounded start-up time. This approach utilizes information about each node's unique message lengths to achieve synchronization. The protocol avoids start-up collisions by postponing retries after a collision. We also present a re-synchronization strategy that incorporates recovering nodes into synchronization.","PeriodicalId":440881,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 20th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"34","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings 20th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RELDIS.2001.970769","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 34
Abstract
A desired attribute in safety critical embedded real-time systems is a system time/event synchronization capability on which predictable communication can be established. Focusing on bus-based communication protocols in TDMA environments, we present a novel, efficient, and low-cost synchronization approach with bounded start-up time. This approach utilizes information about each node's unique message lengths to achieve synchronization. The protocol avoids start-up collisions by postponing retries after a collision. We also present a re-synchronization strategy that incorporates recovering nodes into synchronization.