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Network Time Protocol: a standalone construct

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Computer networking

a protocol that synchronizes computer clocks over packet networks using timestamps exchanged with hierarchically organized servers.

In computer networking, Network Time Protocol refers to a protocol that synchronizes computer clocks over packet networks using timestamps exchanged with hierarchically organized servers. This meaning comes from Mills (1991) in IEEE Transactions on Communications.[1]

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network4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs packet3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs protocol1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Mills, D. L. (1991). Internet time synchronization: the network time protocol. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 39(10), 1482-1493. https://doi.org/10.1109/26.103043

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