On Distributed Communications Networks

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Year: 1964  ·  Venue: RAND Report  ·  Authors: Paul Baran

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Abstract

Proposed breaking messages into blocks routed independently over a redundant mesh — packet switching before the name existed, motivated by surviving nuclear attack.

My Notes

I haven’t written up my notes for this one yet — this page is a placeholder that I’ll fill in as I read.