Citation
Marc Weiss, John Eidson, Charles Barry, David Broman, Leon Goldin, Bob Ianucci, Edward A. Lee, Kevin Stanton. "Time-Aware Applications, Computers, and Communication Systems (TAACCS)". Technical report, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1867, February, 2015; NIST Technical Note 1867.

Abstract
A new economy built on the massive growth of endpoints on the internet will require precise and verifiable timing in ways that current systems do not support. Applications, computers, and communications systems have been developed with modules and layers that optimize data processing but degrade accurate timing. State-of-the-art systems now use timing only as a performance metric. Correctness of timing as a metric cannot currently be designed into systems independent of hardware and/or software implementations. To enable the massive growth predicted, accurate timing needs cross-disciplinary research to be integrated into these existing systems. This paper reviews the state of the art in six crucial areas central to the use of timing signals in these systems. Each area is shown to have critical issues requiring accuracy or integrity levels of timing, that need research contributions from a range of disciplines to solve.

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  Goldin, Bob Ianucci, Edward A. Lee, Kevin Stanton. <a
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  Communication Systems (TAACCS)</i></a>,
  Technical report,  National Institute of Standards and
  Technology, 1867, February, 2015; NIST Technical Note 1867.

• Plain text

  Marc Weiss, John Eidson, Charles Barry, David Broman, Leon
  Goldin, Bob Ianucci, Edward A. Lee, Kevin Stanton.
  "Time-Aware Applications, Computers, and Communication
  Systems (TAACCS)". Technical report,  National
  Institute of Standards and Technology, 1867, February, 2015;
  NIST Technical Note 1867.

• BibTeX

  @techreport{WeissEidsonBarryBromanGoldinIanucciLeeStanton15_TimeAwareApplicationsComputersCommunicationSystems,
      author = {Marc Weiss and John Eidson and Charles Barry and
                David Broman and Leon Goldin and Bob Ianucci and
                Edward A. Lee and Kevin Stanton},
      title = {Time-Aware Applications, Computers, and
                Communication Systems (TAACCS)},
      institution = {National Institute of Standards and Technology},
      number = {1867},
      month = {February},
      year = {2015},
      note = {NIST Technical Note 1867},
      abstract = {A new economy built on the massive growth of
                endpoints on the internet will require precise and
                verifiable timing in ways that current systems do
                not support. Applications, computers, and
                communications systems have been developed with
                modules and layers that optimize data processing
                but degrade accurate timing. State-of-the-art
                systems now use timing only as a performance
                metric. Correctness of timing as a metric cannot
                currently be designed into systems independent of
                hardware and/or software implementations. To
                enable the massive growth predicted, accurate
                timing needs cross-disciplinary research to be
                integrated into these existing systems. This paper
                reviews the state of the art in six crucial areas
                central to the use of timing signals in these
                systems. Each area is shown to have critical
                issues requiring accuracy or integrity levels of
                timing, that need research contributions from a
                range of disciplines to solve. },
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1092.html}
  }
  

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