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Routing plays an important role in computer networks. It governs ‘in which way’ and ‘how quickly or cheaply’ traffic streams should transit over a network. In addition to finding suitable paths, routing is also concerned with adapting to a dynamic network environment with transient fluctuations in network load and link status.
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Professor E. W. Dijkstra is now Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, Austin. He received the ACM Turing Award in 1972.
The target or destination host may be a static or mobile host and may be sending or receiving data or both.
Burstiness is defined by the ratio of peak bit rate to the average bit rate.
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Toh, CK. (1997). Routing and Crossover ATM Switch Discovery. In: Wireless ATM and Ad-Hoc Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6307-5_4
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