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Principles of Robust Timing over the Internet.

The article discusses how computer networks can be used to synchronize computer clocks. The authors discuss how personal computers (PCs) can access Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers to correct deviations in their internal clocks through the transfer of packet timestamps but suggest that NTP system...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 5; pp. 54 - 62
Main Authors: RIDOUX, JULIEN, VEITCH, DARRYL
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2010
Subjects:
Synchronization
Real-time clocks (Computers)
Computer networks
Network Time Protocol (Computer network protocol)
Personal computers
Data packeting
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