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1989

Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems

Friedemann Mattern

Generalises Lamport's logical clocks into vector clocks, giving processes a way to determine precisely which events could and could not have influenced each other.

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Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed SystemLeslie Lamport, 1978Defines happened-before and logical clocks, giving distributed systems a usable notion of order without shared time.

Filed under Distributed Systems in Computer Science.