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Minimax Optimum Clock Skew and Offset Estimators for IEEE 1588

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arxiv 1806.09009 v1 pith:EBFOYX5L submitted 2018-06-23 eess.SP

Minimax Optimum Clock Skew and Offset Estimators for IEEE 1588

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This paper addresses the problem of clock skew and offset estimation for the IEEE 1588 precision time protocol. Built on the classical two-way message exchange scheme, IEEE 1588 is a prominent synchronization protocol for packet switched networks. It is employed in various applications including cellular base station synchronization in 4G long-term evaluation backhaul networks, substation synchronization in electrical grid networks and industrial control. Due to the presence of random queuing delays in a packet switched network, the recovery of clock skew and offset from the received packet timestamps can be viewed as a statistical estimation problem. Recently, assuming perfect clock skew information, minimax optimum clock offset estimators were developed for IEEE 1588. Building on this work, we develop minimax optimum clock skew and offset estimators for IEEE 1588 in this paper. Simulation results indicate the proposed minimax estimators exhibit a lower mean square estimation error than the estimators available in the literature for various network scenarios.

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