High performance, strongly consistent applications are beginning to require scalable sub-
microsecond clock synchronization. State-of-the-art clock synchronization focuses on …

Many distributed systems, eg, state machine replication and distributed databases, rely on
establishing a consistent order of operations on groups of nodes in the system. Traditionally …

Although the native RDMA interface allows for high throughput and low latency, its low-level
abstraction raises significant programming challenges. Consequently, numerous systems …

Some recent services use a sequencer to simplify ordering operations on sharded data. The
sequencer assigns each operation a multi-sequence number which explicitly orders the …

Optical data center networks show promise to serve as the next-generation cloud
infrastructure especially with their cost and power benefits. The need to set up dedicated …

Some recent services use a sequencer to simplify ordering operations on sharded data. The
sequencer assigns each operation a multi-sequence number which explicitly orders the …

Abstract Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) networks are becoming a popular
interconnect technology to enable high performance communication in distributed systems …

Optical data center networks show promise to serve as the nextgeneration cloud
infrastructure especially with their cost and power benefits. The need to set up dedicated …

Temporal and causal ordering of messages in distributed system is a large area of research.
Historically, such message ordering was implemented by coordination between different …