Byzantine clock synchronization

  • Authors:
  • Leslie Lamport;P M Melliar Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

An informal description is given of three fault-tolerant clock-synchronization algorithms. These algorithms work in the presence of arbitrary kinds of failure, including "two-faced" clocks. Two of the algorithms are derived from Byzantine Generals solutions.