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Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system

Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system,10.1145/359545.359563,Communications of The ACM,Leslie Lamport

Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system   (Citations: 4138)
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The concept of one event happening before another in a distributed system is examined, and is shown to define a partial ordering of the events. A distributed algorithm is given for synchronizing a system of logical clocks which can be used to totally order the events.The use of the total ordering is illustrated with a method for solving synchronization problems. The algorithm is then specialized for synchronizing physical clocks, and a bound is derived on how far out of synchrony the clocks can become.
Journal: Communications of The ACM - CACM , vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 558-565, 1978
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