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Switching Techniques

 

Store-and-forward Routing

Entire packet is received by a switch before it is forwarded onto next channel.

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Latency of sending a packet point-to-point over an unloaded network is:

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h is the number of hops (channels traversed).





Paul H J Kelly Fri Apr 24 19:49:58 BST 1998