DocumentCode
3172265
Title
The timed asynchronous distributed system model
Author
Cristian, Flaviu ; Fetzer, Christof
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
fYear
1998
fDate
23-25 June 1998
Firstpage
140
Lastpage
149
Abstract
We propose a formal definition for the timed asynchronous distributed system model and we describe extensive measurements of actual message and process scheduling delays and hardware clock drifts that confirm that this model adequately describes current distributed systems built from networked workstations.
Keywords
distributed processing; software fault tolerance; timing; current distributed systems; hardware clock drifts; message scheduling delays; networked workstations; process scheduling delays; timed asynchronous distributed system model; Clocks; Computer crashes; Computer science; Current measurement; Frequency; Hardware; Nominations and elections; Processor scheduling; Real time systems; Workstations;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1998. Digest of Papers. Twenty-Eighth Annual International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Munich, Germany
ISSN
0731-3071
Print_ISBN
0-8186-8470-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FTCS.1998.689463
Filename
689463
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