{"id":259,"date":"2020-11-29T11:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/?post_type=term&#038;p=259"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:08:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:08:33","slug":"traffic-intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/traffic-intensity-041511\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic intensity is a measure of network traffic conditions used to describe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/tcp-network-congestion-control-514314\/\">network congestion<\/a> or otherwise degraded network conditions. Traffic intensity, also called the traffic intensity factor when calculated, describes conditions in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/term\/packet-switching\/\">packet-switched network<\/a> such as one carrying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/transmission-control-protocol-tcp-252209\/\">TCP traffic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>traffic intensity factor<\/strong> (TF) is a relative measure taking into account the average rate at which packets arrive, the average packet size, and the available network transmission rates. TF can be calculated with the following formula:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-260\" title=\"traffic-intensity-factor-equation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/259\/traffic-intensity-factor-equation.jpg\" alt=\"traffic intensity factor equation\" width=\"566\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/259\/traffic-intensity-factor-equation.jpg 566w, https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/259\/traffic-intensity-factor-equation-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/259\/traffic-intensity-factor-equation-450x141.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a = average rate of packet arrival; L = average packet size; R = transmission rate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Traffic Intensity Factor is useful in probing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/types-of-network-delays-214418\/\">network delays<\/a> and in directing rate-limiting protocols and error prediction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic intensity is a measure of network traffic conditions used to describe network congestion or otherwise degraded network conditions. Traffic intensity, also called the traffic intensity factor when calculated, describes conditions in a packet-switched network such as one carrying TCP traffic. The traffic intensity factor (TF) is a relative measure taking into account the average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,260],"tags":[461,118,103,6],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}