A Deterministic Model of Time for Distributed Systems

Carroll, Jeremy ; Borshchev, Andrei

HP Development Company

关键词: time;    logical time;    real time;    distributed systems;    causality;    Isis;    middleware;    delayed delivery;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-96-112

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

This paper proposes a linear, deterministic, logical tie model for distributed systems. We give an account of causality within distributed systems which undergirds the time model. We discuss some advantages for the application programmer in using our time model.