Randomized and Efficient Time Synchronization in Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks: A Gossip-Consensus-Based Approach

Table 1

The comparison of representative distributed timing protocols.

	Dynamic topology	Delay	Iterative way	Interference	Rate	Offset
MTS [12]	Yes	Yes	Max	High	Yes	Yes
RoATS [15]	No	Yes	Average	High	Yes	Yes
RPCS [19]	Yes	Yes	Average	High	Separate	Separate
RBDS [20]	Yes	No	Average	High	Incomplete	Yes
RFA [27]	No	No	—	Low	No	Yes
DCS [29]	Yes	Yes	Average	High	Separate	Separate
AOTSP [31]	No	Yes	—	Low	Yes	Yes
CCS [36]	No	Yes	Average	Low	No	Yes
Ours	Yes	Yes	Max	Low	Yes	Yes