Bounded time-stamps

  • Authors:
  • Amos Israeli;Ming Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Electrical Engineering Department, The Technion, Haifa, Israel;Computer Science Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada and Aiken Computation Laboratory at Harvard University

  • Venue:
  • Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Time-stamps are labels which a system adds to its data items. These labels enable the system to keep track of the temporal precedence relations among its data elements. Many distributed protocols and some applications use the natural numbers as time-stamps. The natural numbers however are not useful for bounded protocols. In this paper we develop a theory of bounded time-stamps. Time-stamp schemes are defined and the complexity of their implementation is analyzed. This indicates a direction for developing a general tool for converting time-stamp based protocols to bounded protocols.