leaky bucket
leaky bucket · leaky buckets
A counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and…A counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also periodically decremented; used in algorithms to check whether events will gradually overflow the system's capacity, for example in a telecommunication network.
Meaning
1 sensesA counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also periodically decremented; used in algorithms to check whether events will gradually overflow the system's capacity, for example in a telecommunication network.
Forms
plural: leaky buckets| Singular | leaky bucket |
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