ISPCS 2019 Call for Papers
Aim & Scope
The objective of the symposium, to be held in Portland, Oregon, 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, high-frequency trading, and other applications of PTP
