Internet Time Synchronization: The Network Time Protocol

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1991, Pages 1482-1493

  Mills, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS - PROTOCOLS; DATA TRANSMISSION - PACKET SWITCHING; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS;

DATA FILTERING ALGORITHM; INTERNET TIME SYSNCHRONIZATION; LOCAL CLOCKS SYNCHRONIZATION; NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0026242010     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.103043     Document Type: Article

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