Title
Distributed time-management in transputer networks
Abstract
For real-time applications in a distributed system a common notion of time is indispensable. Clocks are used for time measurement, determination of causality, process synchronization and generating unique identifications. All this is only possible if there is a time reference of specified accuracy. Since the local clocks in a distributed system tend to drift away from each other, they need to be adjusted periodically. If the application allows an accuracy that can be met by software, this may be achieved by a distributed clock synchronization algorithm, which creates and maintains a global time reference for all nodes of the network. The design and simulation of such an algorithm for a distributed system consisting of transputers is described. It is based on second order filtered adjustment of the clock rates rather than updating the clock values at once
Year
DOI
Venue
1991
10.1109/EMWRT.1991.144110
Paris-Orsay
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
clocks,digital filters,distributed processing,filtering and prediction theory,parallel programming,real-time systems,synchronisation,time measurement,clock rates,clock values,distributed clock synchronization algorithm,distributed system,global time reference,real-time applications,second order filtered adjustment,time reference,transputers,second order,clock synchronization,time management
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vervoort, W.A.100.34
te West, R.200.34
Albert L. Schoute300.68
Hofstede, J.400.34