antipacket

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ packet.

Noun

antipacket (plural antipackets)

  1. (networking) A record indicating that a previously transmitted packet of data was successfully received, and preventing it from being sent again to the same recipient.
    • 2016, Pin-Yu Chen, Meng-Hsuan Sung, Shin-Ming Cheng, “Buffer Occupancy and Delivery Reliability Tradeoffs for Epidemic Routing”, in arXiv:
      For lossless data delivery, we show that the buffer occupancy can be significantly reduced via fully antipacket dissemination.