Gradient clock synchronization in dynamic networks

Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 270-279

  Kuhn, Fabian ^a   Locher, Thomas ^b   Oshman, Rotem ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clock synchronization; Distributed algorithms; Dynamic networks

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY PATTERNS; CLOCK DRIFT; CLOCK SKEWS; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; COMMUNICATION LINKS; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; DYNAMIC NETWORK; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICES; PEER TO PEER;

MECHANICAL CLOCKS; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 70449670991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1583991.1584059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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