Research Article

Achieving Relative Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 1

Parameter values used to simulate the WSN as shown in Figure 1.

Sensor nodes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Time period (sec) 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.05 0.04 0.02 0.1 0.01 0.2 0.4
Actual starting time (sec) 0.1 0 1.3 1.01 1 0.04 0.12 0.4 0.16 0
Estimated starting time (sec) 1.5 −12.5 3.19 −25.19 10.04 −7.34 2.19 3.25 0 14.58
Value of 80 100 100 100 80 100 80 10 10 10