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Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2020
Applicant:

Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lanfa Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Danjue Li, Dublin, CA (US);

Assignee:

EQUINIX, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/12 (2006.01); G06F 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/12 (2013.01); G06F 1/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for performing time synchronization for a plurality of computing devices without relying upon a minimum measured delay. In one example, processing circuitry obtains time stamp data in accordance with an iteration of a synchronization operation for a timing protocol, wherein the time stamp data describes one or more measured delays for a path between a first computing device and a second computing device, computes a skewness estimate from the time stamp data using a regression analysis, the skewness estimate comprising a frequency difference between a first clock at the first computing device and a second clock at the second computing device, computes an offset estimate between the first clock and the second clock by applying a prediction model to the skewness estimate; and corrects at least one of the first clock or the second clock based at least on the offset estimate.


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