{"title":"Serving time in the cloud: Why time-as-a-service?","authors":"Tal Mizrahi, Y. Moses","doi":"10.1109/INFCOMW.2016.7562052","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Various applications require the use of accurate time. However, public cloud providers do not currently offer accurate time as a cloud service. We study the level of precision that can be achieved in current public cloud environments, and make the case for time-as-a-service, which can considerably improve the precision of timekeeping in the cloud.","PeriodicalId":348177,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2016.7562052","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Various applications require the use of accurate time. However, public cloud providers do not currently offer accurate time as a cloud service. We study the level of precision that can be achieved in current public cloud environments, and make the case for time-as-a-service, which can considerably improve the precision of timekeeping in the cloud.