AraSync: Precision Time Synchronization in Rural Wireless Living Lab

Md Nadim, Taimoor Ul Islam, Salil Reddy, Tianyi Zhang, Zhibo Meng, Reshal Afzal, Sarath Babu, Arsalan Ahmad, Daji Qiao, Anish Arora, Hongwei Zhang · 2024

Summary. AraSync is a time synchronization system designed for rural wireless networks that achieves nanosecond-level accuracy using Precision Time Protocol across fiber and long-range wireless links. The system enables advanced wireless experiments requiring strict timing constraints in 5G, 6G, and Open RAN deployments. Testing shows how wireless channel conditions and weather affect synchronization performance.

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Nadim, M., Islam, T. U., Reddy, S., Zhang, T., Meng, Z., Afzal, R., Babu, S., Ahmad, A., Qiao, D., Arora, A., & Zhang, H.. (2024). AraSync: Precision Time Synchronization in Rural Wireless Living Lab. https://doi.org/10.1145/3636534.3697318

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DOI: 10.1145/3636534.3697318
Countries: United States
Regions: North America
Categories: broadband-and-digital
Added: 2026-04-28