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On Distributed Communications Networks
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A discussion of the problem of building digital communication networks using links with less than perfect reliability. The redundancy level used is defined as a measure of connectivity. The systems planner must choose that form of redundancy so that the form of the noise or interference appears to be somewhat statistically independent for each redundant element added. If this goal is completely met, there can be an exponential payoff for a linear increase of added elements. As an example, the paper examines the synthesis of a system in which the form of the disturbance or noise is the simultaneous destruction of many geographically separated installations. The system considered is a high-speed digital data transmission network composed of unreliable links, but which exhibits any arbitrarily desired level of systems reliability or survivability.
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“The discussion of networks, informing what we now understand as the Internet, is founded on geopolitical antagonism 16 and the paranoia of nuclear war”
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“A decentralized network, with no central node that can be destroyed, will allow military communication to be maintained.”
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“It can be suggested that Baran anticipates the Internet(work) in passages such as, ' we would like to consider the interconnection, 1 day, of many all-digital links to provide a resource optimized for the handling of data for many potential intermittent users -a new common-user system '”
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- Authors
- Baran, P.
- Corresponding author
- Baran, Paul
- Venue
- RAND Corporation eBooks
- Publisher
- RAND Corporation
- Published
- 1962
- OpenAlex
- W4241753577
- Cited by
- 129
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- RAND Corporation eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality › Reliability and Maintenance Optimization
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Advanced Optical Network Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Keywords
- distributed communication networks, network reliability, redundancy, connectivity, survivability, network synthesis, unreliable links, network survivability
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