Connectivity Technology Blog

The ATIS Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems (WSTS) was held in May 2024.Valued for its insight into synchronization and timing fundamentals, the WSTS Tutorial has been a highly anticipated part of the conference since its inception. The videos and presentations from the tutorial sessions are all available here . For anyone unaware, timing & synchronization are critical in communication systems because they ensure data is sent and received correctly between devices. In networks like the internet, computers need to be in sync to avoid data getting scrambled or lost. For example, in wireless communications like Wi-Fi or mobile networks, both the sender and receiver must be perfectly timed to work on the same frequency, ensuring messages don’t overlap or cause interference. Without this coordination, you would have slower or interrupted connections. Timing is also important for managing how devices share network resources. In systems like time-division multiplexing (TDM), e...