Mills D.L. Computer Network Time Synchronization The Network Time Protocol on Earth and in Space

Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011. - 409 p. - ISBN: 978-1-4398-1463-5.
Language: English.2 edition.Book descriptionCarefully coordinated, reliable, and accurate time synchronization is vital to a wide spectrum of fields — from air and ground traffic control, to buying and selling goods and services, to TV network programming. Ill-gotten time could even lead to the unimaginable and cause DNS caches to expire, leaving the entire Internet to implode on the root servers.Written by the original developer of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), "Computer Network Time Synchronization: The Network Time Protocol on Earth and in Space, Second Edition" addresses the technological infrastructure of time dissemination, distribution, and synchronization — specifically the architecture, protocols, and algorithms of the NTP. This system has been active in one form or another for almost three decades on the Internet and numerous private networks on the nether side of firewalls. Just about everything today that can be connected to a network wire has support for NTP.Basic Concepts.
How NTP Works.
In the Belly of the Beast.
Clock Discipline Algorithm.
NTP System Engineering and Configuration.
NTP Performance in the Internet.
Primary Servers and Reference Clocks.
Kernel Timekeeping Support.
Cryptographic Authentication.
Identity Schemes.
Analysis of Errors.
Modeling and Analysis of Computer Clocks.
Metrology and Chronometry of the NTP Timescale.
NTP Reference Implementation.
Precision System Clock Architecture.
NTP Interleaved Modes.
Time Transfer for Space Data Links.
Time Transfer for Deep-Space Missions.
Technical History of NTP.