Optimal gradient clock synchronization in dynamic networks

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 430-439

  Kuhn, Fabian ^a   Lenzen, Christoph ^b   Locher, Thomas ^c   Oshman, Rotem ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c IBM   (Switzerland)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clock synchronization; Dynamic networks

Indexed keywords

CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; COMMUNICATION LINKS; DYNAMIC NETWORK; DYNAMIC NETWORKS; LOGICAL CLOCK; OPTIMAL STABILIZATION; STATIC NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL CLOCKS; OPTIMIZATION;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 77956246759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835698.1835799     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (20)

1. S. Biaz and J. Lundelius Welch. Closed Form Bounds for Clock Synchronization Under Simple Uncertainty Assumptions. Information Processing Letters, 80(3):151-157, 2001.
2. D. Dolev, J. Halpern, B. Simons, and R. Strong. Dynamic Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization. Journal of the ACM (JACM), 42(1):143-185, 1995.
3. D. Dolev, J. Halpern, and R. Strong. On the Possibility and Impossibility of Achieving Clock Synchronization. In Proc. 16th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), pages 504-511, 1984.
4. J. Elson, L. Girod, and D. Estrin. Fine-grained Network Time Synchronization Using Reference Broadcasts. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 36:147-163, 2002.
5. R. Fan and N. Lynch. Gradient Clock Synchronization. In Proc. 23rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), pages 320-327, 2004.
6. J. Halpern, B. Simons, R. Strong, and D. Dolev. Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization. In Proc. 3rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), pages 89-102, 1984.
7. F. Kuhn, C. Lenzen, T. Locher, and R. Oshman. Optimal Gradient Clock Synchronization in Dynamic Networks. CoRR, abs/1005.2894, 2010. http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2894.
8. F. Kuhn, T. Locher, and R. Oshman. Gradient Clock Synchronization in Dynamic Networks. In Proc. 21st ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pages 270-279, 2009.
9. F. Kuhn and R. Oshman. Gradient Clock Synchronization Using Reference Broadcasts. In Proc. 13th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), pages 204-218, 2009.
10. L. Lamport and P. Melliar-Smith. Synchronizing Clocks in the Presence of Faults. Journal of the ACM (JACM), 32(1):52-78, 1985.
11. C. Lenzen, T. Locher, and R. Wattenhofer. Clock Synchronization with Bounded Global and Local Skew. In Proc. 49th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), pages 500-510, 2008.
12. C. Lenzen, T. Locher, and R. Wattenhofer. Tight Bounds for Clock Synchronization. Journal of the ACM (JACM), 57(2):1-42, 2010.
13. T. Locher. Foundations of Aggregation and Synchronization in Distributed Systems. PhD thesis, ETH Zurich, 2009.
14. T. Locher and R. Wattenhofer. Oblivious Gradient Clock Synchronization. In Proc. 20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), pages 520-533, 2006.
15. J. Lundelius and N. Lynch. A New Fault-tolerant Algorithm for Clock Synchronization. In Proc. 3rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pages 75-88. ACM, 1984.
16. J. Lundelius and N. Lynch. An Upper and Lower Bound for Clock Synchronization. Information and Control, 62(2/3):190-204, 1984.
17. K. Marzullo and S. Owicki. Maintaining the Time in a Distributed System. In Proc. 2nd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), pages 44-54, 1983.
18. R. Ostrovsky and B. Patt-Shamir. Optimal and Efficient Clock Synchronization under Drifting Clocks. In Proc. 18th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), pages 400-414, 1999.
19. B. Patt-Shamir and S. Rajsbaum. A Theory of Clock Synchronization. In Proc. 26th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), pages 810-819, 1994.
20. T. K. Srikanth and S. Toueg. Optimal Clock Synchronization. Journal of the ACM, 34(3):626-645, 1987.