{{short description, Computer networking concept
In
computer networking
A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. The computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other. These interconnections ar ...
, a routing domain is a collection of networked systems that operate common
routing protocol
A routing protocol specifies how routers communicate with each other to distribute information that enables them to select routes between nodes on a computer network. Routers perform the traffic directing functions on the Internet; data packet ...
s and are under the control of a single administration. For example, this might be a set of routers under a control of a single organization, some of them operating a corporate network, some others a branch office network, and the rest the data center network.
A given
autonomous system Autonomous system may refer to:
* Autonomous system (Internet), a collection of IP networks and routers under the control of one entity
* Autonomous system (mathematics), a system of ordinary differential equations which does not depend on the inde ...