Wireless Coordination Testbed

MIT Lincoln Laboratory Engineering, 2015-16

Liaison(s): Bryan Teague ’10, Masato Kocberber ’10, Sarah Lichtman ’14, Eric Storm ’15
Advisor(s): Ziyad Durón ’81
Students(s): Max Waugaman (TL), Jessica Iwamoto, Jonathan Perez, Bonny Chen (S), Joanna Ho (S), Jacob Nguyen (F)

Time synchronization is essential in telecommunication networks and a variety of other fields and applications. There a number of coordination architectures that are widely used to achieve time synchronization in a network. In this project, a model of clock synchronization and a wireless coordination testbed are built to compare the performance of synchronization architectures, algorithms, and hardware. The testbed measures, predicts, and compensates for timing offset and drift between spatially separated systems.