METHOD OF SYNCHRONISING NETWORK NODES, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR REALISING SAID METHOD Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC H04B7/26 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: computation and data processing load is distributed from a central processing device to one or more master processing devices. In particular, the invention discloses a method comprising steps of receiving measurement data from each of a plurality of nodes; ranking the plurality of nodes relative each other according to the measurement data; selecting one or more master nodes from the plurality of nodes according to the ranking result; assigning each of the plurality of nodes to the corresponding master node; determining a first time shift between local time measured on each node and local time measured on the corresponding master node, and determining a second time shift between each of the master nodes and a reference time such that time shift between local time measured on each node and the reference time can be determined.

EFFECT: reduced calculation of network node time synchronisation.

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