congestion

<communications>

The condition that arises when the amount of data that senders want to send down a communication channel exceeds its capacity. Typically this will result in some packets being delayed, thus increasing the average latency.

Last updated: 2014-05-04

Nearby terms:

configure ♦ conflation ♦ congestion ♦ CONIC ♦ conjunction ♦ Conjunctive Normal Form

Try this search on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Google, OneLook.

Loading