antipacket

English

Etymology

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^[1]:

     For lossless data delivery, we show that the buffer occupancy can be significantly reduced via fully antipacket dissemination.