Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1978, Pages 558-565

  Lamport, Leslie ^a  

^a Massachusetts Computer Associates Inc ^*

Author keywords

clock synchronization; computer networks; distributed systems; multiprocess systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0017996760     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/359545.359563     Document Type: Article

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