Topics

Distributed Applications Based on Synchronized Clocks

  • Software, hardware, and system architecture
  • Time-based programming models
  • Design environments and tools
  • Distributed algorithms using or based on synchronized clocks
  • Robustness of distributed time-based systems
  • Fault tolerance in distributed time-based systems
  • Security in distributed time-based systems
  • Application requirements studies 
  • Case studies and field experience
  • Analytic, modeling, and simulation studies
  • Time-based cyber-physical systems
  • Time synchronization for robotics and control
  • Time synchronization for cloud computing infrastructure
  • IaaS Data Plane & PaaS Control/Management Plane
  • Precise positioning using ranging from time synchronized beacons

Clock Synchronization Technology

  • Design, usage and research concerning IEEE 1588 (PTP)
  • Systems with heterogeneous synchronization technologies
  • Synchronization performance test and evaluation tools
  • Analytic, modeling, and simulation studies
  • Clock system management 
  • Timing security and robustness
  • Synchronization over gigabit fiber and wireless networks
  • Local and wide-area synchronization 
  • Servo design for slave clocks 
  • Device design and application support 
  • Conformance testing and system integration issues 
  • Time and frequency distribution 
  • Smart grids, high-frequency trading, and other applications of PTP 
  • High precision wireless time transfer 
  • Work-In-Progress reports