Aim & Scope

The objective of the symposium, to be held in Vienna, Austria, is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry, academia, national laboratories and government involved in the area of precision clock synchronization and distributed time-based applications.

Symposium Topics

We welcome paper submissions on all areas of precision clock synchronization and distributed
time-based applications. Example topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Distributed Applications Based on Synchronized Clocks

    Software, hardware, and system architecture
    Time-based programming models
    Design environments and tools
    Distributed algorithms using or based on synchronized clocks
    Robustness of distributed time-based systems
    Fault tolerance in distributed time-based systems
    Security in distributed time-based systems
    Application requirements studies
    Case studies and field experience
    Analytic, modelling, and simulation studies
    Time-based cyber-physical systems
    Time synchronization for robotics and control
    Time synchronization for cloud computing infrastructure
    IaaS Data Plane & PaaS Control/Management Plane

Clock Synchronization Technology

    Design, usage and research concerning IEEE 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 support
    Conformance testing and system integration issues
    Time and frequency distribution
    Emerging and potential markets, e.g., smart grid, highfrequency trading, and other applications of PTP
    Work-In-Progress reports