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

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DSEID-010-5115028
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10.1145/359545.359563
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Communications of the ACM
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
1978-7
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Abstract

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.

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Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
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DSEID-010-5115028
Authors
Leslie Lamport
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