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fault-tolerant clock synchronization: a standalone construct

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keeping the clocks of distributed processes within a bounded difference of each other even when some processes behave arbitrarily.

In distributed systems, fault-tolerant clock synchronization refers to keeping the clocks of distributed processes within a bounded difference of each other even when some processes behave arbitrarily. This meaning comes from Lamport (1985) in Journal of the ACM.[1]

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clock2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs synchronization4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Lamport, L., & Melliar-Smith, P. M. (1985). Synchronizing clocks in the presence of faults. Journal of the ACM, 32(1), 52-78. https://doi.org/10.1145/2455.2457

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