Multistep interactive convergence: An efficient approach to the fault-tolerant clock synchronization of large multicomputers

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1195-1212

  De Azevedo, Marcelo Moraes ^a,b   Blough, Douglas M ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Clock synchronization; Fault tolerance; Interactive convergence; Multicomputers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

FAULT TOLERANT CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; MULTICOMPUTERS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032307958     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.737696     Document Type: Article

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