Two-way time transfer in a coherent sensor array system

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for two-way time transfer in a coherent sensor array, the set of instructions comprising:

• one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the device to:
• establish, via a processor node, a zero-hop network architecture between a plurality of sensor nodes, wherein each of the plurality of sensor nodes includes a dedicated two-way time transfer (TWTT) channel;
• designate, via the processor node, a master node and a plurality of slave nodes, wherein the master node communicates with the dedicated TWTT channel for each of the plurality of slave nodes to form a noiseless timing distribution network;
• and
• distribute, via the master node, a master timing signal from a grandmaster clock, wherein the grandmaster clock achieves at least a picosecond time-synchronization fidelity between the master node and the plurality of slave nodes in the noiseless timing distribution network.

A system for two-way time transfer in a coherent sensor array comprising:

• one or more processors configured to:
• establish, via a processor node, a zero-hop network architecture between a plurality of sensor nodes, wherein each of the plurality of sensor nodes includes a dedicated two-way time transfer (TWTT) channel;
• designate, via the processor node, a master node and a plurality of slave nodes, wherein the master node communicates with the dedicated TWTT channel for each of the plurality of slave nodes to form a noiseless timing distribution network;
• and
• distribute, via the master node, a master timing signal from a grandmaster clock, wherein the grandmaster clock achieves at least a picosecond time-synchronization fidelity between the master node and the plurality of slave nodes in the noiseless timing distribution network.