Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems

@incollection{citeulike:1041601, abstract = {A distributed system can be characterized by the fact that the global state is distributed and that a common time base does not exist. However, the notion of time is an important concept in every day life of our decentralized \"real world\" and helps to solve problems like getting a consistent population census or determining the potential causality between events. We argue that a linearly ordered structure of time is not (always) adequate for distributed systems and propose a generalized...}, author = {Mattern, Friedemann }, booktitle = {Parallel and Distributed Algorithms: proceedings of the International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms}, citeulike-article-id = {1041601}, keywords = {distributed, time}, posted-at = {2007-01-15 00:46:56}, priority = {0}, title = {Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/mattern89virtual.html} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1041601 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1041601 TI - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems T2 - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms: proceedings of the International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms N2 - A distributed system can be characterized by the fact that the global state is distributed and that a common time base does not exist. However, the notion of time is an important concept in every day life of our decentralized "real world" and helps to solve problems like getting a consistent population census or determining the potential causality between events. We argue that a linearly ordered structure of time is not (always) adequate for distributed systems and propose a generalized... KW - distributed KW - time AU - Mattern, Friedemann UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/mattern89virtual.html ER -