Background
Mills, David L. was born on June 3, 1938 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of Richard A. and Adele E. Mills.
( Carefully coordinated, reliable, and accurate time sync...)
Carefully coordinated, reliable, and accurate time synchronization is vital to a wide spectrum of fields—from air and ground traffic control, to buying and selling goods and services, to TV network programming. Ill-gotten time could even lead to the unimaginable and cause DNS caches to expire, leaving the entire Internet to implode on the root servers. Written by the original developer of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), Computer Network Time Synchronization: The Network Time Protocol on Earth and in Space, Second Edition addresses the technological infrastructure of time dissemination, distribution, and synchronization—specifically the architecture, protocols, and algorithms of the NTP. This system has been active in one form or another for almost three decades on the Internet and numerous private networks on the nether side of firewalls. Just about everything today that can be connected to a network wire has support for NTP. This book: • Describes the principal components of an NTP client and how it works with redundant servers and diverse network paths • Provides an in-depth description of cryptographic and other critical algorithms • Presents an overview of the engineering principles guiding network configuration Evaluating historic events that have taken place since computer network timekeeping started almost three decades ago, the author details a number of systems and drivers for current radio, satellites, and telephone modem dissemination and explains how we reckon the time, according to the stars and atoms. The original 16 chapters of the first edition have been rewritten, updated, and enhanced with new material. Four new chapters cover new algorithms and previously uncovered concepts, including timekeeping in space missions. Praise for the first edition: "… For those that need an exhaustive tome on all of the minutiae related to NTP and synchronization, this is the source. … definitive … this book should be considered the last word on the topic." —Ben Rothke on Slashdot.org "… the bible of the subject… contains enough information to take you just as far as you want to go….Dr. Mills is the original developer of NTP." —Books On-Line
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(What started with the sundial has, thus far, been refined...)
What started with the sundial has, thus far, been refined to a level of precision based on atomic resonance: Time. Our obsession with time is evident in this continued scaling down to nanosecond resolution and beyond. But this obsession is not without warrant. Precision and time synchronization are critical in many applications, such as air traffic control and stock trading, and pose complex and important challenges in modern information networks. Penned by David L. Mills, the original developer of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), Computer Network Time Synchronization: The Network Time Protocol takes a broad look at the architecture, protocols, and algorithms involved in time dissemination, distribution, and synchronization. Focused on the fourth generation of NTP, Mills' magnum opus gives an in-depth configuration and performance analysis of typical deployed NTP networks as well as a detailed error budget showing the influence of network and computer delay variations on accuracy. Mills demonstrates the algorithms used to select measurements accessed via diverse pathways to achieve the best accuracy, addresses security issues in depth, and describes the engineering principles underlying NTP architecture and timestamping exchange procedures. Opening the door to highly precise time synchronization in both public and private networks, Computer Network Time Synchronization offers in-depth analysis, theory, and practical concerns in a unified and authoritative reference.
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educator electrical engineer computer scientist
Mills, David L. was born on June 3, 1938 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of Richard A. and Adele E. Mills.
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1960. Bachelor of Science in Engineering Mathematics University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1961. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1962.
Master of Science in Communications Sciences, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1971.
While at Michigan he worked on the ARPA sponsored Conversational Use of Computers (CONCOMP) project and developed DEC PDP-8 based hardware and software to allow terminals to be connected over phone lines to an IBM 360 mainframe. Mills was the chairman of the Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures Task Force (GADS) and the first chairman of the Internet Architecture Task Force. He invented the Network Time Protocol (1981), the DEC LSI-11 based fuzzball router that was used for the 56 kbit/s NSFNET (1985), the Exterior Gateway Protocol (1984), inspired the author of ping for BSD (1983), and had the first FTP implementation.
He has authored numerous RFCs. In 1999 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and in 2002, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). In 2008, Mills was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
Currently, Dr. Mills is an emeritus professor at the University of Delaware, where he was a full professor from 1986 to 2008. He also currently holds an adjunct appointment at Delaware so that he can continue to teach. Mills is an amateur radio operator, callsign W3HCF.
( Carefully coordinated, reliable, and accurate time sync...)
(What started with the sundial has, thus far, been refined...)
The Bar Association of San Francisco. Alameda County Bar Association. State Bar of California.
Association of Defense Counsel, Northern California. Association of Insurance Attorneys.
Married Beverly J. Csizmadia, February 8, 1965. Children: Eileen E., Keith D.