Publications related to Clock drift

Cross-chain payment protocols with success guarantees

In this paper, we consider the problem of cross-chain payment whereby customers of different escrows-implemented by a bank or a blockchain smart contract-successfully transfer digital assets without trusting each other. Prior to this work, cross-chain paym ...

SPRINGER2023

GentleRain: Cheap and Scalable Causal Consistency with Physical Clocks

Willy Zwaenepoel, Calin Iorgulescu, Jiaqing Du, Amitabha Roy

GentleRain is a new causally consistent geo-replicated data store that provides throughput comparable to eventual consistency and superior to current implementations of causal consistency. GentleRain uses a periodic aggregation protocol to deter- mine whet ...

ACM2014

Consistency Models in Distributed Systems with Physical Clocks

Jiaqing Du

Most existing distributed systems use logical clocks to order events in the implementation of various consistency models. Although logical clocks are straightforward to implement and maintain, they may affect the scalability, availability, and latency of t ...

EPFL2014

Clock-SI: Snapshot Isolation for Partitioned Data Stores Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks

Willy Zwaenepoel, Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Jiaqing Du

Clock-SI is a fully distributed protocol that implements snapshot isolation (SI) for partitioned data stores. It derives snapshot and commit timestamps from loosely synchronized clocks, rather than from a centralized timestamp authority as used in current ...

2013

Effects of Process Variations on 3-D Global Clock Distribution Networks

Giovanni De Micheli, Hu Xu, Vasileios Pavlidis

In three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits, the effect of process variations on clock skew differs from 2D circuits. The combined effect of inter-die and intra-die process variations on the design of 3D clock distribution networks is considered in this ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2012

Wide-Range Dynamic Power Management in Low-Voltage Low-Power Subthreshold SCL

Seyed Armin Tajalli, Yusuf Leblebici

Power-frequency scaling in subthreshold source coupled logic (STSCL) systems has been studied and analyzed. It is shown that the operating frequency of such systems can be adjusted over about three decades with linearly proportional power dissipation. The ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012

New miniaturized microwave cavity for Rubidium atomic clocks

Anja Skrivervik, Jean-François Zürcher, Francesco Merli, Maddalena Violetti

Nowadays there is an increasing need for radically miniaturized and low-power atomic frequency standards, for use in mobile and battery-powered applications. For the miniaturization of double-resonance (DR) Rubidium (Rb-87) atomic clocks, the size reductio ...

Ieee2012

Clock-Offset Tracking Software Algorithms For IR-UWB Energy-Detection Receivers

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Manuel Flury

We present a clock-offset tracking algorithm for impulse-radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB) energy-detection receivers. There is a complexity versus performance trade-off for the design of IR-UWB energy-detection receivers: Extremely low-complexity energy-dete ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2009

A Packing Approach to Compare Slotted and Non-Slotted Medium Access Control

Patrick Thiran, Mathilde Durvy

In multi-hop ad hoc networks, the efficiency of a medium access control protocol under heavy traffic load depends mainly on its ability to schedule a large number of simultaneous non-interfering transmissions. However, as each node has only a local view of ...

2006