Title :
Trusted time distribution service for the romanian time stamping authorities
Author :
Niculescu, Anca ; Ciociea, Violeta
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Metrol., Bucharest, Romania
Abstract :
The Time and frequency laboratory of the National Institute of Metrology (NIMB) is the national reference laboratory for time and frequency in Romania. This implies the assurance of measurement units for time and frequency in Romania and their traceability to SI system. The main objectives of the laboratory are to keep competence and resources for the measurement units of time, time interval and frequency, to maintain a national time scale, UTC (NIMB), traceable to the international time scale UTC and to support and supply the Romanian economy and general public with accurate references of time and frequency.
Keywords :
electronic commerce; frequency measurement; time measurement; units (measurement); GPS; NIMB; NTP time server; Romanian time stamping authority; SI system; TSA clocks; UTC; data synchronized; dissemination service; electronic commerce development; electronic document exchange; frequency laboratory; time laboratory; time measurement units; time synchronized; trusted time distribution service; Clocks; Delay; Global Positioning System; Internet; Servers; Synchronization; Time frequency analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF), 2006 20th European
Conference_Location :
Braunschweig
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2642-1