ArticleScientific reports2024
Demonstration of enhanced long-range cosmic time synchronization for wireless and secure dissemination of standard time.
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Accurate traceability of time is prerequisite to the proper functioning of many necessary aspects of our modern life including making financial transactions, managing automated technology and navigating the transport of goods and human beings. One of the most reliable international time references is the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) that can be distributed wirelessly in principle. However, this wireless option is currently limited to GPS and other global navigation satellite systems. GPS signals are weak and easily affected by environmental conditions. Moreover, since GPS signals are unencrypted, the possibility of a signal spoofing attack remains a continuous threat. Prior works showed the potential of the alternative wireless time synchronization technique called Cosmic Time Synchronization (CTS), in which, clocks are located 50 m apart were wirelessly synchronized with a sub-microsecond level accuracy, and its operation time was limited to 20 min. However, for the actual implementation of CTS to real-life situations, these distance and stability values are not sufficient. In this study, we constructed a dedicated CTS facility and conducted a long-haul (180 m) CTS demonstration. As a result, it was verified that this long-range CTS is capable of maintaining stable sub-microsecond time synchronization for 3 days with a granularity of 148.8 ns (SD) and an offset of 22.97 ns. Since the current version of CTS can now operate over an area that has been enlarged by more than one order of magnitude, it is possible to utilize for more diverse applications, and the application to a banking synchronization system is proposed. As a case study, it is shown that CTS now has the capability to offer wireless time synchronization service to large clusters of financial firms in large cities. With its accurate time dissemination (the metrological traceability to UTC), its reasonable cost, and its hack-proof, stable design, this latest CTS model has the capacity to improve the accuracy of timing for a wide variety of sectors.
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