Round-robin may refer to:
Computing
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Round-robin DNS
Round-robin DNS is a technique of load distribution, load balancing, or fault-tolerance provisioning multiple, redundant Internet Protocol service hosts, e.g., Web server, FTP servers, by managing the Domain Name System's (DNS) responses to a ...
, a technique for dealing with redundant Internet Protocol service hosts
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Round-robin networks
A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communications network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. It can also be a form of wireless ad hoc network.Chai Keong Toh Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks, Prentice Hall Publishers, 2002.
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, communications networks made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology
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Round-robin scheduling
Round-robin (RR) is one of the algorithms employed by process and network schedulers in computing. Guowang Miao, Jens Zander, Ki Won Sung, and Ben Slimane, Fundamentals of Mobile Data Networks, Cambridge University Press, , 2016.
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, an algorithm for assigning equal time-slices to different processes on a computer
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Round-robin item allocation, an algorithm for fairly allocating indivisible objects among people
Communication
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Round-robin (document)
Round-robin is a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified.
Origin
The term dates from the 17th-century French '' ...
, a document signed by several parties in a circle in order to hide the identity of the leader
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Round-robin letter, a news-filled letter typically accompanying a Christmas card
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Round-Robin Letter (Spanish–American War), a letter written in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War in 1898
Other uses
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Round-robin story, a collaborative piece of fiction or storytelling
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Round-robin test In experimental methodology, a round-robin test is an interlaboratory test (measurement, analysis, or experiment) performed independently several times. This can involve multiple independent scientists performing the test with the use of the same m ...
, an interlaboratory test performed independently several times
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Round-robin tournament, a competition where each contestant meets all other contestants in turn
* Round-robin start, a possible ordering of turns in a
turn-based game
* Round-robin bet, a type of
wager offered by UK bookmakers, covering three selections
See also
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RRDtool
RRDtool (''round-robin database tool'') aims to handle time series data such as network bandwidth, temperatures or CPU load. The data is stored in a circular buffer based database, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
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, a round-robin database tool
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Modular arithmetic
In mathematics, modular arithmetic is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" when reaching a certain value, called the modulus. The modern approach to modular arithmetic was developed by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his boo ...
, a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" upon reaching a certain value
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