Micro-bursting (networking)

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line-rate transmission that can overflow packet buffers of the network stack, both in network endpoints and routers and switches inside the network. It can be mitigated by the network scheduler. In particular, micro-bursting is often caused by the use of TCP on such a network.[1]

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References

  1. ^ Mark Allman and Ethan Blanton. "Notes on Burst Mitigation for Transport Protocols" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-10-03.