STEM Dictionary

Flooding

a simple routing algorithm in which every incoming packet is sent through every outgoing link except the one it arrived on

Routers use flooding algorithms to send a packet to the entire network at once to ensure it arrives.

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 1104229, 1501756, and 1902474.