Aim & Scope
The objective of the symposium, to be held in Vienna, Austria, is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioner s from industry, academia, national laboratories and government involved in the area of precision clock synchronization and distributed time-based app lications.
Symposium Topics
We welcome paper submissions on a
ll areas of precision clock synchronization and distributed
time-base
d applications. Example topics of interest include but are not limited to:<
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Distributed A pplications Based on Synchronized Clocks
- Software, hardware, and system architecture
- Time-based programming models
- Design environments and tools
- Distributed algorithm s using or based on synchronized clocks
- Robustness of distributed t ime-based systems
- Fault tolerance in distributed time-based systems
- Security in distributed time-based systems
- Application req uirements studies
- Case studies and field experience
- Analyti c, modelling, and simulation studies
- Time-based cyber-physical syst ems
- Time synchronization for robotics and control
- Time sync hronization for cloud computing infrastructure
- IaaS Data Plane & ; PaaS Control/Management Plane
Clock Synchronization Technology< /h5>
- Design, usage and research concerning IE EE 1588
- Systems with heterogeneous synchronization technologies
- Synchronization performance test and evaluation tools
- Analytic , modelling, and simulation studies
- Clock system management
- Timing security and robustness
- Synchronization over gigabit, fiber , and wireless networks
- Local and wide-area synchronization
- Servo design for slave clocks
- Device design and application suppor t
- Conformance testing and system integration issues
- Time an d frequency distribution
- Emerging and potential markets, e.g., smar t grid, highfrequency trading, and other applications of PTP
- Work-I n-Progress reports