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From: kim@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au (Kim Shearer)
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Subject: Re: Distributed time.
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Date: 24 Jan 91 02:46:58 GMT
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In <11456@darkstar.ucsc.edu> vera%chook.adelaide.edu.au@augean.ua.OZ.AU (Vera M) writes:


>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
>|>  

 Im not sure whether you will find this suitable but maybe you
 could include some of the work on causal ordering.

 You may be including this anyway, but it seems to me to be an
 attempt to simplify distributed time and leave only the useful
 concepts.

 Some references you might like to look at :

   Exploiting Replication
	       K P Birman  T A Joseph
	       Not sure how to get your hands on it, try Ken Birman 
	       at Cornell. This is dated June 1 1988

   The use of Efficient Broadcast Protocols in Asynchronous 
   Distributed Systems
	       F B Schmuck
	       PhD Thesis TR 99-928