WordNet
n. specification of design principles (including data formats and procedures) for creating a network configuration of data processors
Wikipedia
Network architecture is the design of a communication network. It is a framework for the specification of a network's physical components and their functional organization and configuration, its operational principles and procedures, as well as data formats used in its operation.
In telecommunication, the specification of a network architecture may also include a detailed description of products and services delivered via a communications network, as well as detailed rate and billing structures under which services are compensated.
The network architecture of the Internet is predominantly expressed by its use of the Internet Protocol Suite, rather than a specific model for interconnecting networks or nodes in the network, or the usage of specific types of hardware links.
Usage examples of "network architecture".
I wouldn't think there were enough processors in the universe to do that, no matter what kind of fancy new network architecture you had.
But if an AI were below a certain threshold level of complexity, or lacked the sort of neural-network architecture with which an organic Vulcan brain could resonate, there was simply nothing comprehensible to read.
He also remembered it because it had a network architecture with the most paranoid security parameters he’.