Synchronizing clocks in the presence of faults
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Ensuring Fault Tolerance of Phase-Locked Clocks
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Easy impossibility proofs for distributed consensus problems
Distributed Computing
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Clock synchronization in distributed real-time systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special Issue on Real-Time Systems
A new fault-tolerant algorithm for clock synchronization
Information and Computation
Lightweight causal and atomic group multicast
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Specification and Implementation of the Universal TimeCoordinated Synchronization Unit (UTCSU)
Real-Time Systems - Special issue on global time in large scale distributed real-time systems, part III
Integrating External and Internal Clock Synchronization
Real-Time Systems - Special issue on global time in large scale distributed real-time systems, part II
Interval-based Clock Synchronization
Real-Time Systems - Special issue on global time in large scale distributed real-time systems, part II
Distributed systems (2nd Ed.)
Ordering subscribers on cable networks
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Fault-tolerant clock synchronization
PODC '84 Proceedings of the third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Understanding Protocols for Byzantine Clock Synchronization
Understanding Protocols for Byzantine Clock Synchronization
Fault-tolerant external clock synchronization
ICDCS '95 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
A Framework for Structuring Group Support in LSDCs
A Framework for Structuring Group Support in LSDCs
Clock synchronization and the power of broadcasting
Distributed Computing
Specification and Implementation of the Universal TimeCoordinated Synchronization Unit (UTCSU)
Real-Time Systems - Special issue on global time in large scale distributed real-time systems, part III
Integrating External and Internal Clock Synchronization
Real-Time Systems - Special issue on global time in large scale distributed real-time systems, part II
GPS-based Clock Synchronization in a Mobile, Distributed Real-Time System
Real-Time Systems - Special issue on global time in large scale distributed real-time systems, part I
A Network Time Interface M-Module for Distributing GPS-Timeover LANs
Real-Time Systems - Selected papers from IFAC/IFIP workshops on real-time programming
The Design of a COTSReal-Time Distributed Security Kernel
EDCC-4 Proceedings of the 4th European Dependable Computing Conference on Dependable Computing
Time in Distributed System Models and Algorithms
Advances in Distributed Systems, Advanced Distributed Computing: From Algorithms to Systems
A Timeout-Based Message Ordering Protocol for a Lightweight Software Implementation of TMR Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Timing-sync protocol for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Heterogeneous Groups to Causally Ordered Delivery
ICDCSW '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W7: EC (ICDCSW'04) - Volume 7
Adaptive clock synchronization in sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
A resource--efficient time estimation for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2004 joint workshop on Foundations of mobile computing
Low complexity Byzantine-resilient consensus
Distributed Computing
Time synchronization methods for wireless sensor networks: A survey
Programming and Computing Software
MuON: Epidemic based mutual anonymity in unstructured P2P networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
On the time synchronization of distributed log files in networks with local broadcast media
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Heterogeneous clock group protocol for causally ordered delivery of messages
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
Intrusion-tolerant architectures: concepts and design
Architecting dependable systems
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS - Volume Part I
Extending the UMIOP specification for reliable multicast in CORBA
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
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In large-scale systems, such as Internet-based distributed systems,classical clock-synchronization solutions become impractical or poorly performing, due to the number ofnodes and/or the distance among them. We present a global timeservice for world-wide systems, based on an innovative clocksynchronization scheme, named CesiumSpray. The service exhibitshigh precision and accuracy; it is virtually indefinitely scalable;and it is fault-tolerant. It is deterministic for real-time machineryin the local area, which makes it particularly well-suited for,though not limited to, large-scale real-time systems. The mainfeatures of our clock synchronization scheme can be summarizedas follows: hybrid external/internal synchronization protocolimproves effectiveness of synchronization; heterogeneous failuresemantics for clocks and processors improves previous lower boundson processors; two-level hierarchy improves scalability. Theroot of the hierarchy is the GPS satellite constellation, which’’sprays‘‘ its reference time over a set of nodes provided withGPS receivers, one per local network. The second level of thehierarchy performs internal synchronization, further ’’spraying‘‘the external time inside the local network.