Synchronization: Introduction by the session chairman

摘要

The discussion at this session centered around two aspects of the synchronization problem: abstract models, primarily of local synchronization; and synchronization in networks which have long delays, lost messages, duplication of messages, and crashes of the communicating parties. There were two presentations on abstract models (Belpaire and Chen) and one on network problems (Dalal), supported by several working papers for which there were no presentations during the session (Ekanadham, Akkoyunlu, Tomlinson).