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 timebased
applications. Example topics of interest include but are not limited to:
April 8, 2019
Deadline for Submission
of Regular Papers
May 20, 2019
Acceptance notice and WIP
paper submission deadline
July 15, 2019
Final written materials to be
published in proceedings
• 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
Distributed applications based on synchronized clocks:
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