English Explanatory Dictionary

leaky bucket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

leaky bucket leaky buckets

Related words

token bucket
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