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flow control

Noun

Meaning

(networking) The management of the data transmission rate between two nodes to prevent a fast sender from outrunning a slow receiver.

(environmental engineering, US) Laws, regulations, and economic incentives or disincentives used by waste managers to direct waste generated in a specific geographic area to a designated landfill, recycling, or waste-to-energy facility.

(aviation, US) The practice of holding aircraft on the ground in anticipation of congestion at destination airspace and airports.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Alternatively, a large number of sources and sinks may be modeled, with or without flow control, and the aggregate maximum network throughput measured (the sum of traffic reaching its destinations). Source: Internet

Both of these changes may have implications for diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes as they are characterized by changes in blood flow control, due to an impaired vascular system. Source: Internet

Buffers allow data to be stored until it can be transferred, and flow control allows the network card to pause communications without having to discard data if the buffer is full. Source: Internet

Flow control TCP uses an end-to-end flow control protocol to avoid having the sender send data too fast for the TCP receiver to receive and process it reliably. Source: Internet

Furthermore, forwarding of and any kind of reaction to (flow control actions) source quench messages was deprecated from 2012 by RFC 6633. Source: Internet

At the time of the merger Valmet was a paper and board machine supplier, while Rauma focused on fiber technology, rock crushing and flow control solutions. Source: Internet

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