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
Язык: английский.2 editionbook's web page
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/book.htmlBook 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