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Gradient Clock Synchronization in Dynamic Networks

dc.date.accessioned2009-05-29T16:00:04Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-26T22:25:58Z
dc.date.available2009-05-29T16:00:04Z
dc.date.available2018-11-26T22:25:58Z
dc.date.issued2009-05-29
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45549
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.aust.edu.ng/xmlui/handle/1721.1/45549
dc.description.abstractOver the last years, large-scale decentralized computer networks such as peer-to-peer and mobile ad hoc networks have become increasingly prevalent. The topologies of many of these networks are often highly dynamic. This is especially true for ad hoc networks formed by mobile wireless devices. In this paper, we study the fundamental problem of clock synchronization in dynamic networks. We show that there is an inherent trade-off between the skew S guaranteed along sufficiently old links and the time needed to guarantee a small skew along new links. For any sufficiently large initial skew on a new link, there are executions in which the time required to reduce the skew on the link to O(S) is at least Omega(n/S). We show that this bound is tight for moderately small values of S. Assuming a fixed set of n nodes and an arbitrary pattern of edge insertions and removals, a weak dynamic connectivity requirement suffices to prove the following results. We present an algorithm that always maintains a skew of O(n) between any two nodes in the network. For a parameter S = Omega(sqrt{rho n}), where rho is the maximum hardware clock drift, it is further guaranteed that if a communication link between two nodes u, v persists in the network for at least Omega(n/S) time, the clock skew between u and v is reduced to no more than O(S).en_US
dc.format.extent33 p.en_US
dc.subjecttime synchronizationen_US
dc.subjectdistributed algorithmsen_US
dc.subjectlower bounden_US
dc.titleGradient Clock Synchronization in Dynamic Networksen_US


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