Abstract

Wireless sensors network is a type of the ad-hoc network. It is comprised of many sensors which are interlinked with each other for performing the same function collectively such as monitoring the weather conditions, temperature, different kind of vibrations and sound etc. Any distributed system requires time synchronization. In particular, time Synchronization is extremely important for Wireless sensor network applications e.g. for data fusion, TDMA schedules, synchronizes sleep periods, etc.

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