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leaky bucket: a standalone construct

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Computer networking

a traffic policing scheme that lets data enter a network only at a fixed drain rate with a bounded burst, smoothing and limiting a source's traffic.

In computer networking, leaky bucket refers to a traffic policing scheme that lets data enter a network only at a fixed drain rate with a bounded burst, smoothing and limiting a source's traffic. This meaning comes from Turner (1986) in IEEE Communications Magazine.[1]

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bucket1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct network4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs source4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Turner, J. (1986). New directions in communications (or which way to the information age?). IEEE Communications Magazine, 24(10), 8-15. https://doi.org/10.1109/mcom.1986.1092946

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