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A Survey on Clock Synchronization in the Industrial Internet

Global Innovation Exchange, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

†Co-First Authors (Fan Dang is responsible for designing the framework, conducting the research, and writing for the Applications and Related Work sections. Xi-Kai Sun is in charge of researching and writing the Preliminaries and Protocol sections.)

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Clock synchronization is one of the most fundamental and crucial network communication strategies. With the expansion of the Industrial Internet in numerous industrial applications, a new requirement for the precision, security, complexity, and other features of the clock synchronization mechanism has emerged in various industrial situations. This paper presents a study of standardized clock synchronization protocols and techniques for various types of networks, and a discussion of how these protocols and techniques might be classified. Following that is a description of how certain clock synchronization protocols and technologies, such as PROFINET, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), and other well-known industrial networking protocols, can be applied in a number of industrial situations. This study also investigates the possible future development of clock synchronization techniques and technologies.

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wireless sensor networkclock synchronizationindustrial communicationIndustrial Internet

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Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Volume 38 Issue 1,
February 2023
Pages 146-165
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-023-2908-4
Cite this article:
Dang F, Sun X-K, Liu K-B, et al. A Survey on Clock Synchronization in the Industrial Internet. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2023, 38(1): 146-165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-023-2908-4

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Received: 15 October 2022
Revised: 21 November 2022
Accepted: 09 January 2023
Published: 28 February 2023
© Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2023
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