HLC Distributed System Prototype

This project implements a distributed system using Hybrid Logical Clocks (HLCs) in Rust.
HLCs combine physical time and logical clocks to ensure causality and event ordering, even across distributed nodes.

📜 Overview

In distributed systems, clock synchronization is challenging due to network delays and clock skew.

• Hybrid Logical Clocks (HLCs) solve this by using physical time when available and falling back to logical counters for causality.
• This prototype demonstrates how multiple nodes can communicate and maintain a consistent view of events using HLCs.

📚 Features

• Node communication with message passing.
• HLC implementation to track and maintain causal order.
• Thread-based simulation for concurrent node operations.
• Optional structured logging with log and env_logger.

📂 Project Structure

🛠️ Setup and Installation

Prerequisites

• Rust: Install Rust by running:

  curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

git clone https://github.com/davidrhodus/hlc_prototype.git cd hlc_prototype