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A Time Synchronized Multi-Hop Mesh Network with Crystal-Free Nodes

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In this work we propose and demonstrate a protocol for a time synchronized channel hopping mesh network for wireless transceivers that use exclusively imprecise and inaccurate on-chip oscillators. This protocol is built on an IEEE 802.15.4 physical layer radio that enables interoperability with protocols such as 6TiSCH or Thread. A calibration-bootstrapped multihop mesh network is demonstrated with a single crystal-enabled node acting as the root. The protocol is designed to create a multi-hop mesh while compensating noisy and drifting oscillators and timers. With a 4 s synchronization period, an experimental implementation of the network maintains, in the worst case, 1.8 ms 3σ absolute time synchronization and 820 µs 3σ hop-to-hop synchronization across four hops, under ambient environmental conditions. The resistance to environmental variation is tested by varying one node's supply voltage. With time and frequency feedback from received packets, the node maintains this synchronization with a supply variation of 2.5 mV/s, which is equivalent to a temperature variation of 10 • C/min with a packet rate of 0.5 Hz.
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hal-04394968 , version 1 (15-01-2024)

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Filip Maksimovic, Austin Patel, David Burnett, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer S J Pister. A Time Synchronized Multi-Hop Mesh Network with Crystal-Free Nodes. GLOBECOM 2023 - IEEE Global Communications Conference, IEEE, Dec 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ⟨hal-04394968⟩

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