Week 3: Logical clocks

Lecture notes:
Clock synchronization
Assigning Lamport & Vector Timestamps
Logical clocks - Lecture slides (6 per page)
Supplemental notes:
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, Communications of the ACM, July 1978, 21(7):558-565.
PODC Influential Paper Award: 2000 — comments on Lamport's Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System paper.
Why Vector Clocks are Easy, Bryan Fink on basho.com, January 29, 2010
Buzzwords:
Temporal ordering, happened-when, happened-before, concurrent events, Lamport's algorithm, logical clocks, physical clocks, Lamport timestamps, vector clocks, vector timestamps.