Tight bounds for clock synchronization

Journal of the ACM

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

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

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bounded rates; Global skew; Gradient property; Local skew; Variable clock drifts; Worst case analysis

Indexed keywords

CLOCK DRIFT; CLOCK RATE; CLOCK SKEWS; CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; GENERAL MODEL; MESSAGE DELAY; NEIGHBORING NODES; NETWORK DIAMETER; NUMBER AND SIZE; REAL TIME; SYNCHRONIZATION MODELS; TIGHT BOUND; TIME PERIODS; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS; WORST-CASE ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC CLOCKS; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 76849092426     PISSN: 00045411     EISSN: 1557735X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1667053.1667057     Document Type: Article

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