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Network Latency

The time for a message to travel from sender to receiver, composed of propagation, transmission, queuing, and processing delay — and inherently variable in real networks. Whether latency has a knowable bound is precisely what separates synchronous from asynchronous system models.

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Why Latency Differs from Bandwidth in Internet Networking

Bandwidth and latency are orthogonal performance dimensions of a communication network: bandwidth is the volume of data transferable per unit time (a throughput rate), while latency is the elapsed ti…