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From: vera%chook.adelaide.edu.au@augean.ua.OZ.AU (Vera M)
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Subject: Re: Distributed time.
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In article <11132@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, page@CS.UCLA.EDU (Thomas Page) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> I am co-teaching a graduate seminar on distributed systems.  I would like
|> to encorporate a lecture on the notion of time in a distributed system, but
|> I am woefully ignorant on the subject.  I would appreciate any and all
|> suggestions on what you thing should be covered, and especially any good
|> references.  At this point I intend to cover Jefferson's Virtual Time, and
|> protocols for maintaining clock synchronization (which ones?).
|> 
|> 	Many thanks,
|> 		Tom Page
|>  

I found the follwoing rather suitable:

L.Lamport
Time, clocks and the Ordering of Events            
Distributed Systems.                              
Communications of the ACM, July 1978.                        

H. Kopetz and W. Ochsenreiter
Clock synchronization in Distributed Real-Time Computer Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers, VolC-36, No8, August 1987.

P. Ramanathan, D.D. kandlur, and K.G. Shin
Hardware-Assisted Software Clock Synchronization 
for Homogeneous distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 39, No4, April 1990.

Hope that is of help.

Vera