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Lecture 6, 7: Clock synchronization

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Clock synchronization
Clock synchronization Lecture Slides

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RFC 2030: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) version 4

RFC 1305: Network Time Protocol, version 3

NTP Architecture, Protocol and Algorithms, David L. Mills, University of Delaware

Buzzwords:
temporal ordering, happened-when, happened-before, concurrent events, Lamport's algorithm, logical clocks, physical clocks, Lamport timestamps, vector clocks, vector timestamps, clock drift, clock skew, linear compensating function, time server, Cristian's algorithm, Berkeley algorithm, fault-tolerant average, Network Time Protocol (NTP), synchronization subnet, strata, dispersion, Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)

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