On Distributed Communications: Introduction to Distributed Communications Networks

Paul Baran's 1964 RAND memorandum comparing centralized, decentralized and distributed networks, and showing that a distributed network survives attacks on its nodes and links far better than a centralized one.

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• Paul Baran person 1926–2011 [src]