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Tri
Tri

Reputation: 113

What's the difference between "delay" and "latency" in computer networks?

Sometimes when I'm reading a paper in the field of computer networks, I found that in the evaluation part of the papers, some evaluation indexes are "delay", but some are "latency". So What's the difference between "delay" and "latency" in computer networks?

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Ali
Ali

Reputation: 138

Latency is a measure of delay. In a network, latency is usually measured as a delay in a round trip–the time taken to get back and forth to a destination because the TCP / IP network sends a limited amount of data to its destination and then waits for the confirmation to be returned before further sending. [refrence]1

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