Packet-switching networks are resilient to change. Packets find their way to their destination with the help of routers, which use their knowledge of the network to send traffic along the most ...

Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet switching technology helped to lay the foundation for the Internet, has died at the age of 84 in Palo Alto, Calif.

Clos network, a family of multistage networks, are attractive alternative for constructing scalable packet switches because of its distributed and modular design. The clos packet switching ...