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noun
A style of routing network traffic in which packets are forwarded to any available neighbour immediately as opposed to being buffered until the optimum path to the destination is usable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: networks
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From hot potato, a game in which an object is passed on as soon as it is received, + routing.
