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Glossary: TCP/IP in Depth, Part 2

bufferbloat

A queue too large for its line, so packets wait a long time at the bottleneck. In the 20 Mbit/s lab test, a nearly full 100 KB router queue pushed the round trip from under 0.1 ms to 30 to 40 ms.

Where the book teaches it

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queueing delayfq_codelBBRtbfRTT