Tight bounds for clock synchronization

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 46-55

  Lenzen, Christoph ^a   Locher, Thomas ^a   Wattenhofer, Roger ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Algorithms; C.2.4 computer systems organization : Computer communication networks Distributed systems; F.2.2 analysis of algorithms and problem complexity : Non numerical algorithms and problems Computations on discrete structures; Theory

Indexed keywords

C.2.4 [COMPUTER SYSTEMS ORGANIZATION]: COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; CLOCK DRIFT; CLOCK RATE; CLOCK SKEWS; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; F.2.2 [ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS AND PROBLEM COMPLEXITY]: NON-NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS AND PROBLEMS - COMPUTATIONS ON DISCRETE STRUCTURES; GENERAL MODEL; MESSAGE DELAY; NEIGHBORING NODES; NETWORK DIAMETER; NUMBER AND SIZE; REAL TIME; SYNCHRONIZATION MODELS; THEORY; TIGHT BOUND; TIME PERIODS; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONTROL THEORY; ELECTRIC CLOCKS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; NETWORK SECURITY; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350627335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1582716.1582730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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