Round-robin may refer to:

Computing

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 ad ...

, a technique for dealing with redundant Internet Protocol service hosts *

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. A m ...

, communications networks made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology *

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. As the term is ...

, an algorithm for assigning equal time-slices to different processes on a computer *

Round-robin item allocation Round robin is a procedure for fair item allocation. It can be used to allocate several indivisible items among several people, such that the allocation is "almost" envy-free: each agent believes that the bundle he received is at least as good as ...

, an algorithm for fairly allocating indivisible objects among people

Communication

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 *

Round-robin letter A round-robin letter or Christmas letter is a letter, typically included with a Christmas card and sent to multiple recipients at the end of the year, in which the writer describes the year's events for themselves and/or their family. The round- ...

, a news-filled letter typically accompanying a Christmas card *

Round-Robin Letter (Spanish–American War) The Round-Robin Letter is the name of an incident in the United States Army that occurred between July 28 and August 3, 1898, during the Spanish–American War. After disease incapacitated thousands of Army soldiers in the wake of the Siege of Sant ...

, a letter written in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War in 1898

Other uses

Round-robin story A round-robin story, or simply "round robin," is a type of collaborative fiction or storytelling in which a number of authors write chapters of a novel or pieces of a story, in rounds. Round-robin novels were invented in the 19th century, and late ...

, a collaborative piece of fiction or storytelling *

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 *

Round-robin tournament A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero ...

, a competition where each contestant meets all other contestants in turn * Round-robin start, a possible ordering of turns in a

turn-based game In video and other games, the passage of time must be handled in a way that players find fair and easy to understand. This is usually done in one of the two ways: real-time and turn-based. Real-time Real-time games have game time progress cont ...

* Round-robin bet, a type of wager offered by UK bookmakers, covering three selections

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