›› MIND Lab Seminar Series: 19 May 2008

The NTP Protocol

Morgan Kleene
PhD Student, Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park

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Date: Monday, 19 May 2008

Time: 1:00p to 2:00p

Location: AVW 4185

›› Abstract

The NTP protocol is the most widely deployed internet timekeeping protocol in use today. I will give an overview of the protocol with special emphasis given to the statistical methods employed to mediate jitter and other uncertainty inherent in communication in a large scale networked environment.