Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Flow control (data)

Index Flow control (data)

In data communications, flow control is the process of managing the rate of data transmission between two nodes to prevent a fast sender from overwhelming a slow receiver. [1]

30 relations: ASCII, Asynchronous transfer mode, Available bit rate, Bit rate, Computer network, Constant bitrate, Crossover cable, Data circuit-terminating equipment, Data terminal equipment, Data Terminal Ready, Data transmission, Duplex (telecommunications), Ethernet flow control, Go-Back-N ARQ, Handshaking, Network congestion, Propagation delay, RS-232, Selective Repeat ARQ, Serial port, Signaling (telecommunications), Sliding window protocol, Software flow control, Stop-and-wait ARQ, Telecommunications network, Telephone exchange, Teletraffic engineering, Traffic contract, Transmission delay, Variable bitrate.

ASCII

ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.

New!!: Flow control (data) and ASCII · See more »

Asynchronous transfer mode

Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is, according to the ATM Forum, "a telecommunications concept defined by ANSI and ITU (formerly CCITT) standards for carriage of a complete range of user traffic, including voice, data, and video signals".

New!!: Flow control (data) and Asynchronous transfer mode · See more »

Available bit rate

Available bit rate (ABR) is a service used in ATM networks when source and destination don't need to be synchronized.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Available bit rate · See more »

Bit rate

In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Bit rate · See more »

Computer network

A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Computer network · See more »

Constant bitrate

Constant bitrate (CBR) is a term used in telecommunications, relating to the quality of service.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Constant bitrate · See more »

Crossover cable

A crossover cable connects two devices of the same type, for example DTE-DTE or DCE-DCE, usually connected asymmetrically (DTE-DCE), by a modified cable called a crosslink.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Crossover cable · See more »

Data circuit-terminating equipment

A data circuit-terminating equipment (DCE) is a device that sits between the data terminal equipment (DTE) and a data transmission circuit.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Data circuit-terminating equipment · See more »

Data terminal equipment

Data terminal equipment (DTE) is an end instrument that converts user information into signals or reconverts received signals.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Data terminal equipment · See more »

Data Terminal Ready

Data Terminal Ready (DTR) is a control signal in RS-232 serial communications, transmitted from data terminal equipment (DTE), such as a computer, to data communications equipment (DCE), for example a modem, to indicate that the terminal is ready for communications and the modem may initiate a communications channel.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Data Terminal Ready · See more »

Data transmission

Data transmission (also data communication or digital communications) is the transfer of data (a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal) over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Data transmission · See more »

Duplex (telecommunications)

A duplex communication system is a point-to-point system composed of two or more connected parties or devices that can communicate with one another in both directions.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Duplex (telecommunications) · See more »

Ethernet flow control

Ethernet flow control is a mechanism for temporarily stopping the transmission of data on Ethernet family computer networks.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Ethernet flow control · See more »

Go-Back-N ARQ

Go-Back-N ARQ is a specific instance of the automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol, in which the sending process continues to send a number of frames specified by a window size even without receiving an acknowledgement (ACK) packet from the receiver.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Go-Back-N ARQ · See more »

Handshaking

In telecommunications, a handshake is an automated process of negotiation between two communicating participants (example "Alice and Bob") through the exchange of information that establishes the protocols of a communication link at the start of the communication, before full communication begins.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Handshaking · See more »

Network congestion

Network congestion in data networking and queueing theory is the reduced quality of service that occurs when a network node or link is carrying more data than it can handle.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Network congestion · See more »

Propagation delay

Propagation delay is a technical term that can have a different meaning depending on the context.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Propagation delay · See more »

RS-232

In telecommunications, RS-232, Recommended Standard 232 is a standard introduced in 1960 for serial communication transmission of data.

New!!: Flow control (data) and RS-232 · See more »

Selective Repeat ARQ

Selective Repeat ARQ / Selective Reject ARQ is a specific instance of the Automatic Repeat-Request (ARQ) protocol used to solve sequence number dilemma in communications.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Selective Repeat ARQ · See more »

Serial port

In computing, a serial port is a serial communication interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time (in contrast to a parallel port).

New!!: Flow control (data) and Serial port · See more »

Signaling (telecommunications)

In telecommunication, signaling has the following meanings.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Signaling (telecommunications) · See more »

Sliding window protocol

A sliding window protocol is a feature of packet-based data transmission protocols.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Sliding window protocol · See more »

Software flow control

Software flow control is a method of flow control used in computer data links, especially RS-232 serial.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Software flow control · See more »

Stop-and-wait ARQ

Stop-and-wait ARQ, also referred to as alternating bit protocol, is a method in telecommunications to send information between two connected devices.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Stop-and-wait ARQ · See more »

Telecommunications network

A telecommunications network is a collection of terminal nodes, links are connected so as to enable telecommunication between the terminals.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Telecommunications network · See more »

Telephone exchange

A telephone exchange is a telecommunications system used in the public switched telephone network or in large enterprises.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Telephone exchange · See more »

Teletraffic engineering

Telecommunications traffic engineering, teletraffic engineering, or traffic engineering is the application of traffic engineering theory to telecommunications.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Teletraffic engineering · See more »

Traffic contract

If a service (or application) wishes to use a broadband network (an ATM network in particular) to transport a particular kind of traffic, it must first inform the network about what kind of traffic is to be transported, and the performance requirements of that traffic.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Traffic contract · See more »

Transmission delay

In a network based on packet switching, transmission delay (or store-and-forward delay, also known as packetization delay) is the amount of time required to push all the packet's bits into the wire.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Transmission delay · See more »

Variable bitrate

Variable bitrate (VBR) is a term used in telecommunications and computing that relates to the bitrate used in sound or video encoding.

New!!: Flow control (data) and Variable bitrate · See more »

Redirects here:

Hardware flow control, Modem flow control.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_control_(data)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »