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Clock Synchronization: Open Problems in Theory and Practice

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Clock synchronization is one of the most basic building blocks for many applications in computer science and engineering. The purpose of clock synchronization is to provide the constituent parts of a distributed system with a common notion of time. While the problem of synchronizing clocks in distributed systems has already received considerable attention from researchers and practitioners alike, we believe that there are many fascinating problems that remain unsolved. In this paper, we give a brief overview of previous work in this area, followed by a discussion of open clock synchronization problems in theory and practice.

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  1. Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory TIK, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher, Philipp Sommer & Roger Wattenhofer

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  1. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jan van Leeuwen

  2. LaBRI, Universit Bordeaux, 351 cours de la Libration, 1F-33405, Talence Cedex, France

    Anca Muscholl

  3. Department of Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    David Peleg

  4. Department of Software Engineering Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Malostranské nám, Charles University, 25 11800, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Pokorný

  5. Software Engineering, Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University, 3, Ahornstrae 55, D-52074, Aachen, Germany

    Bernhard Rumpe

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Lenzen, C., Locher, T., Sommer, P., Wattenhofer, R. (2010). Clock Synchronization: Open Problems in Theory and Practice. In: van Leeuwen, J., Muscholl, A., Peleg, D., Pokorný, J., Rumpe, B. (eds) SOFSEM 2010: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5901. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11266-9_5

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