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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2017
Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, Washington, DC (US);
Qasim Mahmood Chaudhari, Doha, QA;
Khalid Ali Qaraqe, Doha, QA;
Erchin Serpdin, College Station, TX (US);
Abstract
The cross-layer time synchronization method is a cross-layer synchronization approach that utilizes a timing recovery module at a physical layer (PHY), derives the information about the clock frequency offset from the timestamp-embedded message, and exploits it for synchronization at the higher layers. This approach either results in minimizing the cost of synchronization resulting in energy efficiency or improving the accuracy of the clock parameters' estimates by exploiting the PHY information. Some applications of this cross-layer technique include, but are not limited to, energy efficient wireless networks, cooperative networks or distributed MIMO networks.