| 摘要 |
<p>The present invention is concerned with an improved time synchronisation of two stationary clocks. A global time signal from a global time reference or common time source is used to calculate a common view based clock offset between two stationary clocks. In parallel, a network based clock offset between the two clocks is calculated based on messages exchanged over a communication network interconnecting the two clocks and without reverting to the global time reference. The two most recent values of the common view and network based clock offsets are then combined or superposed in a seamless or hitless way to produce a final time offset estimate. The combination of the independently calculated common view and network based clock offsets is a weighted average of the two values, involving respective weights based on quality estimates of the latter. Preferably, the time synchronization schemes based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and a wide area communication network are combined in order to synchronize the stationary clocks of the Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) of a Wide Area Monitoring System to a central server clock at the Network Control Center (NCC) of the system.</p> |
