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First-In First-Out
  • A queueing discipline in which arriving entities leave in the same order in which they arrived.
  • Note 1: Service is offered first to the entity that has been in the file the longest.
  • Note 2: Commonly used in message switching. See also buffer, elastic buffer, last-in first-out, queue traffic, variable length buffer.