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


Resource | v1 | created by jjones |
Type Paper
Created 2019-10-04
Identifier ISBN: 9781450372701

Description

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.

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