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A '''flooding algorithm''' is aan method[[algorithm]] for distributing material to every part of a connected system. The name derives from the concept of inundation by a [[flood]].

Flooding algorithms are used in systems such as [[Usenet]] and [[peer-to-peer]] [[file sharing system]]s and as part of some [[routing algorithm]]s, including [[OSPF]], [[DVMRP]], and those used in [[ad-hoc wireless network]]s.