hot-potato routing
English
Etymology
From hot potato, a game in which an object is passed on as soon as it is received, + routing.
Noun
hot-potato routing (usually uncountable; plural hot-potato routings)
- (networks) A style of routing network traffic in which packets are forwarded to any available neighbour immediately as opposed to being buffered until the optimum path to the destination is usable.
Synonyms
- deflection routing