Riccardo Gusella and Stefano Zatti

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-87-337
January 1987

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/CSD-87-337.pdf

This paper discusses the upper and lower bounds on the accuracy of the time synchronization achieved by the algorithms implemented in TEMPO, a distributed clock synchronizer running on Berkeley UNIX 4.3BSD systems. We show that the accuracy is a function of the network transmission latency, and depends linearly upon the drift rate of the clocks and the interval between synchronizations. Comparison with other clock synchronization algorithms reveals that TEMPO may achieve better synchronization accuracy at a lower cost.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Gusella:CSD-87-337,
    Author = {Gusella, Riccardo and Zatti, Stefano},
    Title = {The Accuracy of the Clock Synchronization Achieved by TEMPO in Berkeley UNIX 4.3BSD},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {1987},
    Month = {Jan},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/5405.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-87-337},
    Abstract = {This paper discusses the upper and lower bounds on the accuracy of the time synchronization achieved by the algorithms implemented in TEMPO, a distributed clock synchronizer running on Berkeley UNIX 4.3BSD systems. We show that the accuracy is a function of the network transmission latency, and depends linearly upon the drift rate of the clocks and the interval between synchronizations. Comparison with other clock synchronization algorithms reveals that TEMPO may achieve better synchronization accuracy at a lower cost.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Gusella, Riccardo
%A Zatti, Stefano
%T The Accuracy of the Clock Synchronization Achieved by TEMPO in Berkeley UNIX 4.3BSD
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1987
%@ UCB/CSD-87-337
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/5405.html
%F Gusella:CSD-87-337