Editing Flood search routing

In a [[telephone network]], '''flood search routing''' is non-deterministic [[routing]] in which a dialed number received at a [[switch]] is transmitted to all switches, ''i.e.,'' flooded, in the [[area code]] directly connected to that switch; if the dialed number is not an affiliated [[subscriber]] at that switch, the number is then retransmitted to all directly connected switches, and then routed through the switch that has the dialed number corresponding to the particular [[User (telecommunications)|user]] [[end instrument]] affiliated with it.<ref>"Federal Standard 1037C", United States General Services Administration (1996)</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Fiber Optics Standard Dictionary |url=https://archive.org/details/fiberopticsstand00weik |url-access=limited |first=Martin |last=Weik |edition=illustrated |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |year=1997 |isbn=9780412122415 |page=[https://archive.org/details/fiberopticsstand00weik/page/n390 369]}}</ref> All digits of the numbering plan are used to identify a particular subscriber. Flood search routing allows subscribers to have [[telephone number]]s independent of switch codes. Flood search routing provides the highest probability that a [[telephone call]] will go through even though a number of switches and links fail.

Flood search routing is used in military telecommunication systems, such as the [[mobile subscriber equipment]] (MSE) system.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Army communicator |volume=15 |publisher=U.S. Army Signal School |year=1990}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Data and Computer Communications: Networking and Internetworking |url=https://archive.org/details/datacomputercomm0000hura |url-access=registration |first1=Gurdeep S. |last1=Hura |first2=Mukesh |last2=Singhal |edition=illustrated |publisher=CRC |year=2001 |isbn=9781420041316 |page=[https://archive.org/details/datacomputercomm0000hura/page/576 576]}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Flooding (computer networking)]]

==References==
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[[Category:Routing algorithms]]


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