In computing and telecommunications, the payload is the part of transmitted data that is the actual intended message. Headers and metadata are sent only...

vehicle, often an aircraft or spacecraft. Payload may also refer to: Payload (computing), several analogous usages a game mode in Team Fortress 2 and other...

pass through. However, as the Morris worm and Mydoom showed, even these "payload-free" worms can cause major disruption by increasing network traffic and...

data transmission, the data following the header is sometimes called the payload or body. It is vital that header composition follows a clear and unambiguous...

In computing, a trojan horse (or simply trojan; often capitalized, but see below) is a kind of malware that misleads users as to its true intent by disguising...

in computing systems. The square root of a negative number is not a real number, and is therefore also represented by NaN in compliant computing systems...

digit is computed as follows: Drop the check digit from the number (if it's already present). This leaves the payload. Start with the payload digits. Moving...

In computing, Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a secure network protocol suite that authenticates and encrypts packets of data to provide secure...

common goal for their work. The terms "concurrent computing", "parallel computing", and "distributed computing" have much overlap, and no clear distinction...

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The concept expanded to the hobbyist home computing community, focusing on hardware in the late 1970s (e.g. the Homebrew Computer...

In computing, load balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources (computing units), with the aim of making their overall...

In distributed computing, a conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) is a data structure that is replicated across multiple computers in a network, with...

mandatory in most cases in IPv6. Data: Variable The payload of the UDP packet. The method used to compute the checksum is defined in RFC 768, and efficient...

allows ping to compute the round-trip time in a stateless manner without needing to record the time of transmission of each packet. The payload may also include...

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information. Reliably sending a payload of data over a communications network requires sending more than just the payload itself. It also involves sending...

In computing, an event is a detectable occurrence or change in the system's state, such as user input, hardware interrupts, system notifications, or changes...

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provide improved pointing, more payload power, secure communications, higher downlink data rates or enhanced payload computing power. Bus Dimensions (H x W...

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon. Most landing sites...

infrastructure of cloud computing. It is a sub-domain of computer security, network security and, more broadly, information security. Cloud computing and storage...

user data; the latter is also known as the payload. Control information provides data for delivering the payload (e.g., source and destination network addresses...

In computing, polymorphic code is code that uses a polymorphic engine to mutate while keeping the original algorithm intact - that is, the code changes...

words, a data unit on an Ethernet link transports an Ethernet frame as its payload. An Ethernet frame is preceded by a preamble and start frame delimiter...

UDP packets (including data payload). The Internet checksum is used to detect errors in ICMP packets (including data payload). The checksum calculation...

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packages, determine whether or not they have a payload encoded into them, and, if possible, recover that payload. Unlike cryptanalysis, in which intercepted...

is the kilogram-kilometre (kgkm), the service of moving one kilogram of payload a distance of one kilometre. kilogram (kg), the standard SI unit of mass...

indicated in the table entry. A router typically does not look into the packet payload, but only at the layer-3 addresses to make a forwarding decision, plus...

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