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Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed

Author

Leslie Lamport

Entry type

article

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...

URL

http://delivery.acm.org/10.114 ... 3025&CFTOKEN=43644687

Journal

Communicaions of the ACM

Key alpha

Lamport

Number

7

Pages

8

Volume

21

Affiliation

Massachusetts Computer Associates, Inc.

Publication Date

2001-01-01

Keywords

distributed systems; computer networks, clock synchronization; multiprocess systems

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