On Distributed Communications

IV. Priority, Precedence, and Overload

Paul Baran

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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  • Year: 1964
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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/RM3638
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