Improving fault tolerance in high-precision clock synchronization

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 206-215

  Gaderer, Georg ^a   Loschmidt, Patrick ^a   Sauter, Thilo ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clock synchronization; Computer network reliability; Fault tolerance; IEEE 1588; Time measurement

Indexed keywords

CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; COMPUTER NETWORK RELIABILITY; CONCEPT-BASED; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FAULT-TOLERANT; HIGH PRECISION; IEEE 1588; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 77952012307     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2010.2044580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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