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vector clock: a standalone construct

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a vector of per-process counters attached to events so that the happened-before partial order can be recovered exactly by comparing timestamps.

In distributed systems, vector clock refers to a vector of per-process counters attached to events so that the happened-before partial order can be recovered exactly by comparing timestamps. This meaning comes from Fidge (1991) in Computer.[1]

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clock2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs order4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs vector3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Fidge, C. (1991). Logical time in distributed computing systems. Computer, 24(8), 28-33. https://doi.org/10.1109/2.84874

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