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, modeling, 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
• Precise positioning using ranging from time synchronized beacons

Clock Synchronization Technology

• Design, usage and research concerning IEEE 1588 (PTP)
• Systems with heterogeneous synchronization technologies
• Synchronization performance test and evaluation tools
• Analytic, modeling, 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 
• Smart grids, high-frequency trading, and other applications of PTP 
• High precision wireless time transfer 
• Work-In-Progress reports