Building fault-tolerant hardware clocks from COTS components Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2545967, abstract = {Clocks with a bounded drift rate are an important tool in the construction of dependable applications. However, the drift rates of clocks provided by operating systems on some computing platforms are not always bounded, e.g. due to lost interrupts or leap seconds. We show how one can build clocks with a bounded drift rate from components off-the-shelf (COTS). Our approach can be used to achieve a tight synchronization with UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) in systems with access to at least one GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver}, author = {Fetzer, C. and Cristian, F.}, booktitle = {Dependable Computing for Critical Applications 7, 1999}, citeulike-article-id = {2545967}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DCFTS.1999.814290}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=814290}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/fetzer99building.html}, doi = {10.1109/DCFTS.1999.814290}, journal = {Dependable Computing for Critical Applications 7, 1999}, keywords = {1999, clocks, fault-tolerant}, pages = {67--86}, posted-at = {2008-03-17 13:43:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Building fault-tolerant hardware clocks from COTS components}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DCFTS.1999.814290}, year = {1999} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2545967 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2545967 N2 - Clocks with a bounded drift rate are an important tool in the construction of dependable applications. However, the drift rates of clocks provided by operating systems on some computing platforms are not always bounded, e.g. due to lost interrupts or leap seconds. We show how one can build clocks with a bounded drift rate from components off-the-shelf (COTS). Our approach can be used to achieve a tight synchronization with UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) in systems with access to at least one GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver JF - Dependable Computing for Critical Applications 7, 1999 EP - 86 TI - Building fault-tolerant hardware clocks from COTS components T2 - Dependable Computing for Critical Applications 7, 1999 SP - 67 KW - 1999 KW - clocks KW - fault-tolerant AU - Fetzer, C AU - Cristian, F PY - 1999/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DCFTS.1999.814290 ER -