Time Synchronization Industry-Academia

Time Synchronization Industry-Academia (TSIAW) is a Workstream under the OCP Time Appliances Project. It brings together researchers and industry practitioners to discuss and solve challenging problems in the time synchronization of connected devices and applications, acting as a bridge between academic research and industry needs. The workstream exposes and facilitates academic projects with impact on data center and edge technologies, researches how precise time can improve application performance, power, latency, or cost, and fosters a community of time synchronization experts.

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Workstream Lead: Hesham Elbakoury

Time Synchronization Industry-Academia (TSIAW) is a Workstream under the OCP Time Appliances Project.

The Time Appliances Project (TAP) addresses time synchronization, a key element of efficiency in distributed systems, and provides a platform to bring together, discuss, standardize, and share timing technologies, with datacenter applications and network infrastructure as its main interest.

TSIAW brings together researchers and industry practitioners to discuss and solve challenging problems in the time synchronization of connected devices and applications. It acts as a bridge between academic research and industry needs, ensuring that research addresses the real-world challenges of ever-growing and complex data center and edge networks and devices.

The workstream exposes projects for academia that will have impact on data center and edge technologies, helps facilitate the research where possible, and makes a community of time synchronization experts available to academia and industry to improve applications through time synchronization.

Scope

The workstream’s objectives are to:

Bridge theory and practice — connect academic research with industry needs so that research delivers robust, reliable, and scalable solutions for data center and edge networks
Provide synchronization data for decision makers — research how precise time can make data center and edge applications such as AI, databases, and microservices run 2x to 1000+x better in performance, power, latency, or cost
Develop time synchronization projects — expose and facilitate academic projects with impact on data center and edge technologies
Advance the field — identify critical research areas, promote joint projects, and disseminate findings through conferences, workshops, repositories, and publications
Foster an expert community — create a platform for communication and collaboration among industry professionals, academics, and researchers

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Time Synchronization Industry-Academia workstream (TSIAW) – Workstream #10

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Goal

The Time Synchronization Industry-Academia Workstream (TSIAW) brings together researchers and industry practitioners to discuss and solve challenging problems in time synchronization of connected devices and applications.

Objectives

Bridge the gap between theory and practice

The TSIAW will act as a bridge between academic research and industry needs. By bringing together researchers and practitioners, the workstream will ensure that research efforts address real-world challenges faced by the ever-growing and complex data center and edge communication networks and devices by developing robust, reliable and scalable novel solutions

Synchronization Data for Decision Makers

Research and develop the data required by data center decision makers, on how to use precise time to make data center and edge applications (AI, Databases, Microservices, etc.) or portions of that software run 2x to 1000+x better in performance, power, latency and/or cost when compared to unsynchronized solution.

Develop Time Synchronization Projects

The TSIAW will expose projects for academia that will have impact on data center and edge technologies. When possible, TSIAW will help facilitating the research. When possible, making a community of time synchronization experts available to Academia and Industry to improve applications through time synchronization.

Advance the field of time synchronization

The TSIAW will strive to push the boundaries of time synchronization research by facilitating collaboration between industry and academia. This will involve identifying critical research areas, promoting joint research projects, and disseminating findings and solutions through conferences, workshops, repositories, and publications. (First virtually) (Not focused on crazy precise, more on applications)

Foster a dynamic, vibrant and knowledgeable community of time synchronization experts

The TSIAW will create a platform for communication and collaboration among industry professionals, academics, and researchers working on time synchronization

Projects

Academic / Industry Projects

These are projects that anyone can develop and present to the community. They are idea for college projects, thesis, and dissertations.

Start Date End Date Call For Action Statement Introduction Slides Wiki
#1 5/1/2024 Open Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning College Project A Precisely Synchronized Datacenter Would Improve Overall Performance of Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Slides
#2 8/26/2024 First Project Meeting Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning College Project First meeting to discuss the AI/ML College Project was recorded for anyone who was not able to attend Video
#3 9/19/2024 Second Project Meeting Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning College Project AI/ML Precise Time Projects Video Notes
Start Date End Date Document Title Video Slides Link to Document
#1 6/1/2024 Open Deconstructing Distributed AI/ML with Precise Time Video Slides Document
Date Topics and Recordings Speakers Slides Notes
Feb 23rd, 2026 GNSS Under Attack: Interference Trends and Monitoring Insights from the Baltic Sea Maksim Barodzka, CEP GPSPATRON Slides
Feb 2nd, 2026 GNSS-WASP; a wide-area, physical-layer spoofing attack on satellite navigation systems Christopher Tibaldo, ETH Slides
Dec 1st, 2025 Picosecond Precision Synchronous Clock and RF Carrier Transmission for Radio Access Network Fronthaul Dr. Kari A. Clark https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rwaS6YDeQcc5kKblIiHlSXp9mA_Zo3jB/view?usp=sharing
Nov 3rd, 2025 Smart Grid Time Synchronization Ron Rotstein Slides
Oct 10th, 2025 Multi-Chip Synchronization of Direct RF 20GSPS converters across Phased Array Applications Ian Beavers, Analog Devices Slides
Aug 04th, 2025 FPGA Design and Implementation of Secure IEEE 1588 Precision Timing Protocol for ORAN and 5G New Radio Applications Hossam Fattah from Lattice Semiconductor Slides
June 23rd, 2025 IEEE P1952 – The resilient PNT equipment standards project Doug Arnold, Meinberg, USA Slides
June 2nd, 2025 Precision Over Fiber: Advancing Frequency & Time Transfer with Next-Generation Technologies Dr. Kemal Shafak Chief Product Officer Cycle GmbH Slides
May 5th, 2025 Optimizing Energy Efficiency of HPC / AI Data Centers with EAR Julita Corbalan Gonzalez, CTO Energy Aware Solutions S.L Slides
April 21st, 2025 Accelerating AI using Analog In-Memory Compute Charles Mackin, IBM Research Slides
April 7th, 2025 Sync and Measure: Resilient and Fault-tolerant Synchronization Francisco Gerla, SAFRAN Slides
March 3rd, 2025 Unlocking the Power of Precision Jitter Analysis: Enhancing Performance and Tightening Design Margins in Advanced SoCs Zakir Hussain Syed, Cofounder and CTO of Infinisim Slides
Feb 17, 2025 Predictive Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Eric retired, Senior Director and Technical Fellow at Medtronic Slides
Feb 03, 2025 Strontium Molecular Lattice Clock in the THz Frequency Regime Brandon Iritani, Columbia University Slides
Jan 13, 2025 Great Sky, Rebuilding AI from first Principles Jeff Shainline, Founder and CEO GreatSKY.ai Slides
Dec 02, 2024 Time Transfer and Ensembles Across Moving Platforms Dr. Marc Weiss, National Institute of Standard sand Technology (NIST) Time and Frequency Division in Boulder, Colorado Slides
Nov 20, 2024
Nov 04, 2024 Intelligent Synchronization Techniques for Effective Digital Twin Construction Prof. Xianbin Wang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University, Canada
Oct 22, 2024 – 9PM OCP TAP – TSIAW Workstream call
Oct 9, 2024 – 9PM OCP TAP – TSIAW Workstream call (9PM)
Oct 9, 2024 – 9AM OCP TAP – TSIAW Workstream call (9AM)
Oct 7, 2024 Time Synchronization of Optical Switching Dr. Sébastien RUMLEY, Professor, iCoSys Institute Slides
Sep 19, 2024 – 8PM OCP TAP – TSIAW Workstream call (8PM)
Sep 19, 2024 – 9AM AI/ML Networking Problems and Potential Solutions with Precise Time Dan Biederman (Intel), Julian Saint James (Meta) Meeting Notes
Sep 02, 2024 Bringing Together Precise Timing, Telecoms and Digital Twin Dr. Chris Murphy, Regional CTO, EMEA Slides
Aug 26, 2024 Workstream Call Dan Biderman
July 01, 2024 Quantum Time Transfer David Mitlying Slides
Jun 03, 2024 TF techniques for quantum networks Tara Fortier Slides
May-1, 2024 TSIAW Academic Project #1 AI/ML Performance Improvements Hesham ElBakoury, Dan Biederman (Intel) Dan’s Slides, Hesham’s Slides === 2026 === * August 05, 2026 (YouTube) * August 03, 2026 (YouTube) * July 31, 2026 (YouTube) * July 29, 2026 (YouTube) * July 20, 2026 (YouTube) * July 09, 2026 (YouTube) * July 06, 2026 (YouTube) * June 29, 2026 (YouTube) * June 22, 2026 (YouTube) * June 16, 2026 (YouTube) * June 04, 2026 (YouTube) * June 02, 2026 (YouTube) * June 01, 2026 (YouTube) * May 29, 2026 (YouTube) * May 22, 2026 (YouTube) * May 22, 2026 (YouTube) * May 22, 2026 (YouTube) * May 22, 2026 (YouTube) * May 22, 2026 (YouTube) * May 22, 2026 (YouTube) * May 22, 2026 (YouTube) * May 22, 2026 (YouTube) * May 22, 2026 (YouTube)

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