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@Article{Cole:1988:ECS, author = "R. Cole and Clare Foxcroft", title = "An Experiment in Clock Synchronisation", journal = j-COMP-J, volume = "31", number = "6", pages = "496--502", month = dec, year = "1988", CODEN = "CMPJA6", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/31.6.496", ISSN = "0010-4620 (print), 1460-2067 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "0010-4620", bibdate = "Tue Dec 4 14:48:25 MST 2012", bibsource = "Compendex database; Distributed/CCR.bib; http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/6.toc; http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/compj1980.bib; http://www3.oup.co.uk/computer_journal/hdb/Volume_31/Issue_06/", URL = "http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/6/496.full.pdf+html; http://www3.oup.co.uk/computer_journal/hdb/Volume_31/Issue_06/tiff/496.tif; http://www3.oup.co.uk/computer_journal/hdb/Volume_31/Issue_06/tiff/497.tif; http://www3.oup.co.uk/computer_journal/hdb/Volume_31/Issue_06/tiff/498.tif; http://www3.oup.co.uk/computer_journal/hdb/Volume_31/Issue_06/tiff/499.tif; http://www3.oup.co.uk/computer_journal/hdb/Volume_31/Issue_06/tiff/500.tif; http://www3.oup.co.uk/computer_journal/hdb/Volume_31/Issue_06/tiff/501.tif; http://www3.oup.co.uk/computer_journal/hdb/Volume_31/Issue_06/tiff/502.tif", abstract = "This paper describes an experiment to obtain an upper bound on the accuracy that can be expected when attempting to synchronise the system clock of one computer with the system clock of a physically remote computer. The paper gives some reasons for wanting to synchronise clocks and the relationship to previous work. The experiments used the DARPA experimental Network Time Protocol (NTP).", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, affiliation = "Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. London, UK", affiliationaddress = "London, Engl", classcodes = "C5620 (Computer networks and techniques); C5150 (Other circuits for digital computers)", classification = "722; 723; C5150 (Other circuits for digital computers); C5620 (Computer networks and techniques)", corpsource = "Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. London, UK", fjournal = "The Computer Journal", journal-URL = "http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/", keywords = "clock; Clock synchronisation; Clock Synchronization; clocks; Computer Networks; computer networks; Computer Systems, Digital; Computers, Digital--Synchronization; Datagram network; datagram network; Datagram Networks; Distributed; Real-Time Synchronization; synchronisation; System clock; system clock; Time synchronisation; time synchronisation; Upper bound; upper bound; Upper Bounds, Computer networks", thesaurus = "Clocks; Computer networks; Synchronisation", treatment = "P Practical", }