Fault-Tolerant External Clock Synchronization
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Abstract
We address the problem of how to integrate fault-tolerant internal and external clock synchronization. We propose a new algorithm which provides both external and internal clock synchronization for as long as no more than F reference time servers out of a total of 2F+1 are faulty. When the number of faulty reference time servers exceeds F, the algorithm degrades to a fault-tolerant internal clock synchronization algorithm. We prove that at least 2F+1 reference time servers are necessary for achieving external clock synchronization when up to F reference time servers can suffer arbitrary failures, thus our algorithm provides maximum fault-tolerance. The algorithm is also optimal in another sense: we show that the maximum deviation between reference time and the clocks of nonreference time servers is minimal.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 70-82 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Publication status | Published - 1995 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
| Title | 1995 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems |
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| Conference number | 15 |
| Duration | 30 May - 2 June 1995 |
| Degree of recognition | International event |
| City | Vancouver |
| Country | Canada |
Keywords
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Keywords
- Extermal Clock Synchronization, Internal Clock Synchronization, Lower Bounds, Optimal External Clock Synchronisation, Fault tolerance, Clocks, Synchronization, Degradation, reliability, real-time system, fault-tolerant external clock synchronization, external clock synchronization, internal clock synchronization, reference time servers, fault-tolerant internal clock synchronization algorithm