Research Article
Fireflies as role models for synchronization in ad hoc networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1315843.1315848, author={Alexander Tyrrell and Gunther Auer and Christian Bettstetter}, title={Fireflies as role models for synchronization in ad hoc networks}, proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Bio Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={BIONETICS}, year={2006}, month={12}, keywords={}, doi={10.1145/1315843.1315848} }- Alexander Tyrrell
Gunther Auer
Christian Bettstetter
Year: 2006
Fireflies as role models for synchronization in ad hoc networks
BIONETICS
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1315843.1315848
Abstract
Fireflies exhibit a fascinating phenomenon of spontaneous synchronization that occurs in nature: at dawn, they gather on trees and synchronize progressively without relying on a central entity. The present article reviews this process by looking at experiments that were made on fireflies and the mathematical model of Mirollo and Strogatz [1], which provides key rules to obtaining a synchronized network in a decentralized manner. This model is then applied to wireless ad hoc networks. To properly apply this model with an accuracy limited only to the propagation delay, a novel synchronization scheme, which is derived from the original firefly synchronization principle, is presented, and simulation results are given.
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