Summary: On the limitation of the Global Time Assumption
in Distributed Systems
(Extended Abstract)
Uri Abraham 
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Ben-Gurion University
Beer-Sheva, Israel
Shai Ben-David y
Dept. of Computer Science
Technion
Haifa, Israel
Shlomo Moran z
Dept. of Computer Science
Technion
Haifa, Israel
Abstract
An ongoing debate among theoreticians of distributed systems concerns the global time
issue. The basic question seems to be to what extent does a model with global time re ect
the 'real' behavior of a distributed system. The assumption of the existence of global
time simplies the analysis of distributed algorithms to an extent that makes it almost

Source: Abraham, Uri - Departments of Computer Science & Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University

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