Safe estimation of time uncertainty of local clocks

IEEE International Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication, ISPCS '09 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 47-52

  Bondavalli, Andrea ^a   Brancati, Francesco ^a   Ceccarelli, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Powerlaw; Simulation; Software clocks; Statistics; Synchronization uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; GLOBAL TIME; POWER-LAW; SELF-ADAPTIVE; SIMULATION; SIMULATION SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE CLOCK; SOFTWARE CLOCKS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME INFORMATION; TIME UNCERTAINTY;

MECHANICAL CLOCKS; SYNCHRONIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 71949100465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPCS.2009.5340222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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