Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for ...
If time is money, then what is the value of a nanosecond (billionth of a second)? Well, if you are building a large network of distributed applications, it could mean a ten percent improvement in ...
The need for more accurate time synchronization within a distributed system. The challenges of using synchronized time provided by the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) in application software and the ...