unicast
verbEtymology From uni- + broadcast.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Networking, Physical sciences, Sciences To transmit in this manner.
unicast
adjEtymology From uni- + broadcast.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Networking, Physical sciences, Sciences Being the transmission of messages to a single destination host on a packet switching network.
- In this paper, we describe a model of multicast service we call host groups and propose this model as a way to support multicast in the DARPA Internet environment [14]. We argue that it is feasible to implement this facility as an extension of the existing "unicast" IP datagram model and mechanism.1985 December 23, S. E. Deering, D. R. Cheriton, “Host Groups: A Multicast Extension to the Internet Protocol”, in Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments number 966, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2001:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Synonym of singlecast.