Lexicon

Logical Counter

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Causality Core

Record: lexicon:logical-counter

Canonical: Lexicon

A monotonically increasing counter each process maintains to stamp events for logical ordering.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Happens-Before Reasoning and before No Concurrent Causality Distinction.

Category

  • Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time

Refactors

  • Event Ordering

Required by

  • Lamport Clocks

Linked from

  • Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time