On Distributed Communications
IV. Priority, Precedence, and Overload
ResearchPublished 1964
One in a series of eleven Memoranda detailing the Distributed Adaptive Message Block Network, a proposed digital data communications system based on a distributed network concept. It is concerned with the establishment of traffic precedence doctrines designed to achieve optimum utilization of the communications resource, especially within a seriously degraded and overloaded network.
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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
- Availability: Web Only
- Year: 1964
- Pages: 75
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/RM3638
- Document Number: RM-3638
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Baran, Paul, On Distributed Communications: IV. Priority, Precedence, and Overload, RAND Corporation, RM-3638, 1964. As of July 13, 2026: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3638.html
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Baran, Paul, On Distributed Communications: IV. Priority, Precedence, and Overload. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1964. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3638.html.
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