Self-organizing paradigm for NTP autonomous configuration

This paper studies autonomous configuration problem of time synchronization met when the NTP protocol is used in very large-scale networks. NTP autonomous configuration means the adaptive refreshment of the run-configuration in response to current state of networks. This paper takes the autonomous configuration as a class of self-organizing process. A life-cycle model is presented, and a special extended protocol for NTP is designed. With this protocol, a node is able to automatically search, choose and tune its running parameters. The simulations and applications show that this method has more advantages over others and it is valuable for NTP improvement.