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What do you understand by clock synchronization in distributed systems? Explain one technique of logical clock synchronization.
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written 9.7 years ago by gravatar for teamques10 teamques10 ★ 70k
  • To synchronize logical clocks, Lamport defined a relation called happens-before.
  • The expression a ->b is read as ‘a happens before b’ and means that all processes agree that event a occurs then event b occurs.
  • From the definition of the happened-before relation, the clock condition mentioned above is satisfied if …

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