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Internet protocol that discards all input

The Discard Protocol is a service in the Internet Protocol Suite defined in 1983 in RFC 863 by Jon Postel. It was designed for testing, debugging, measurement, and host-management purposes. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: Discard ProtocolA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Observer-Based Sliding Mode Control for Networked Fuzzy Singularly Perturbed Systems Under Weighted Try-Once-Discard ProtocolInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Data Communications and NetworkingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Ultimate Boundedness Control for Networked Systems With Try-Once-Discard Protocol and Uniform Quantization EffectsCited 196 times
  5. Go sideways: Echo ProtocolA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Daytime ProtocolA closely related topic

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