Artifact Details

Title

On distributed communications : I. introduction to distributed commnications networks

Catalog Number

102724339

Type

Document

Description

"...one in a series of eleven RAND Memoranda detailing the Distriuted Adaptive Message Block Network, a proposed digital data communications system based on a distributed network concept...[it] is a part of The RAND Corporation's continuing program of research under U.S. Air Force Project RAND, and is related to research in the field of command and control and in governmental and military planning and policy making....[This first Memorandum] introduces the system concept and outlines the requirements for and design considerations of a digital data communications system based on the distributed concept, especially as regards implications for such systems in the 1970s."--p.iii

Date

1964-08

Author

Baran, Paul

Publisher

RAND Corporation

Identifying Numbers

Document number RM-3420-PR

Extent

xi, 37 p.

Category

Technical Report

Collection Title

Gift of Paul Baran

Series Title

On distributed communications

Credit

Gift of Paul Baran

Lot Number

X6266.2012