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logical clocks: a standalone construct

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Distributed systems

counters that order events in a distributed system by the happened-before relation without a shared physical clock.

In distributed systems, logical clocks refers to counters that order events in a distributed system by the happened-before relation without a shared physical clock. This meaning comes from Lamport (1978) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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clock2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs order4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs relation4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Lamport, L. (1978). Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system. Communications of the ACM, 21(7), 558-565. https://doi.org/10.1145/359545.359563

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