Differentiate between adaptive and non-adaptive routing.

Adaptive routing defines the ability of a system, by which routes are characterised through their destination, to change the path that the route takes by the system in response to a modification in conditions. The adaptation is intended to permit as many routes as possible to remain valid (which have destinations which can be reached) in response to the change.

People utilizing a transport system can display adaptive routing. For illustration, if a local railway station is closed, people can alight from a train at other station and use another way, as a bus, only to reach their destination.

Systems which do not implement adaptive routing are explained as using non-adapting or static routing, which routes by a network are explained by fixed paths as statically. A change, a loss of a node or loss of a connection among nodes, is not compensated for. It means that anything which wishes to take an affected path will either have to wait for the failure to be revamped before restarting its journey or it will have to fail to reach its destination and quit the journey.