packet switching is a method of grouping data into short messages in fixed format, i.e. packets, that are transmitted over a digital network. Packets...

A packet-switching node is a node in a packet-switching network that contains data switches and equipment for controlling, formatting, transmitting, routing...

In telecommunications, fast packet switching is a variant of packet switching that increases the throughput by eliminating overhead associated with flow...

contrasts with message switching and packet switching used in modern digital networks in which the trunklines between switching centres carry data between...

and computer networking, a network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network. A packet consists of control information and...

including circuit switching networks and packet switched networks. In packet-switched networks, routing protocols direct packet forwarding through intermediate...

packet switching and the associated communication protocols on the local-area NPL network. By 1973, BPO-T engineers had developed a packet-switching communication...

(VC) is a means of transporting data over a data network, based on packet switching and in which a connection is first established across the network between...

message blocks in the early 1960s, and Donald Davies conceived of packet switching in 1965 at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), proposing a national...

the network. He incorporated Donald Davies' concepts and designs for packet switching, and sought input from Paul Baran on dynamic routing. In 1969, ARPA...

cut-through switching, also called cut-through forwarding is a method for packet switching systems, wherein the switch starts forwarding a frame (or packet) before...

implementation of packet switching in the local-area NPL network in 1966-69 to demonstrate the technology. Many of the wide-area packet-switched networks built...

satisfy different types of traffic. Multiprotocol label switching belongs to the family of packet-switched networks. MPLS operates at a layer that is generally...

on a computer network by using packet switching to receive and forward data to the destination device. A network switch is a multiport network bridge that...

he applied queueing theory to model and measure the performance of packet switching networks and published several of the standard works on the subject...

digital radio, packet radio is the application of packet switching techniques to digital radio communications. Packet radio uses a packet switching protocol...

atomic clock in 1955, and the invention and first implementation of packet switching in the 1960s, which is today one of the fundamental technologies of...

routing strategy for networks based on packet switching which can reduce the need of buffering packets. Every packet has preferred outputs along which it...

Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and...

Multi-layer switching combines layer-2, -3 and -4 switching technologies and provides high-speed scalability with low latency. Multi-layer switching can move...

scheduler, also called packet scheduler, queueing discipline (qdisc) or queueing algorithm, is an arbiter on a node in a packet switching communication network...

functionality not found in the OSI network layer. An X.25 WAN consists of packet-switching exchange (PSE) nodes as the networking hardware, and leased lines,...

opposed to circuit switching, where a certain quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed during the connection. Unlike older circuit switching data, GPRS was...

the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A PSDN may use a variety of switching technologies, including packet switching, circuit switching, and message...

of the GSM network switching subsystem. The network provides mobility management, session management and transport for IP packet services in GSM and...

computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching, which is today the dominant basis for data communications in computer...

Data fragmentation Dynamic bandwidth allocation Dynamic TDMA Packet Packet switching Example of Statistical Multiplexing (Chart from a real DVB-T multiplex)...

were operating on the basis of circuit switching, alternatives to which are message switching or packet switching. Bob Taylor became the director of the...

Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London that pioneered the concept of packet switching. Based on designs first conceived by Donald Davies in 1965, development...

between the yet unfeasible full optical packet switching (OPS) and the mostly static optical circuit switching (OCS). It differs from these paradigms because...