A brief study of time

Digital Investigation

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL., 2007, Pages 31-42

  Buchholz, Florian ^a   Tjaden, Brett ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer clocks; Computer forensics; Time measurement; Time synchronization; Timestamp correlation

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; CORRELATION METHODS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER CLOCKS; COMPUTER FORENSICS; FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS; TIMESTAMP CORRELATION;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34447625947     PISSN: 17422876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diin.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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