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round-trip time

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round-trip time

(RTT) A measure of the current delay on a network, found by timing a packet bounced off some remote host. This can be done with ping -s.
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By measuring the round-trip time (RTT), [A.sub.1] can infer whether [U.sub.1] recently requested the specific content or not.
It is a common term in IP network monitoring, and differs from round-trip time (RTT).Using trace files of separate routing protocol to find end to end delay for better performance.
Figure 8(b) shows the relationship between the Round-Trip Time (RTT) and the vehicle running velocity.
"The problem," Rosenbluh says, "is that the randomness repeats itself every round-trip time."
If we look for a time--short--compared to the round-trip time of flight, the input impedance of a transmission line is the characteristic impedance of the line.
Due to the warping of space-time by the Sun's gravitational field, the round-trip time to the spacecraft was a trace longer than it would have been without this relativistic curvature.
Upon receiving the probe-reply packet, the source node determines the round-trip time, RTT, and then normalizes RTT with respect to the distance between the source and destination.
PING will ping an IP address to determine round-trip time, MAC address, packet transmission quality and gateway.
"Removing grade crossings on the Richardson Highway would allow buses to cut 20 minutes off their round-trip time between Fairbanks and North Pole.
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