Tag
clock-synchronization
- Jan 26, 2026 The NTP Four-Timestamp Exchange and Its Asymmetry Limit How four timestamps yield an offset estimate, why the estimate is only as good as the path symmetry, and how the protocol decides which of several servers to believe. distributed systems
- Apr 26, 2025 Clock Skew and the Limits of Cross-Host Event Ordering Where host clocks diverge, how much error an unsynchronized timeline carries, and which ordering conclusions survive when timestamps from different machines are merged. security