Leaky bucket mechanism

• Single leaky bucket:

  • used to police CBR sources.
  • the leaking rate is equal to the negotiated MCR (Mean Cell Rate) of the source.
  • the bucket size should be:
    • small enough to limit the size of the bursts allowed into the network.
    • large enough, so that cells from well behaving sources are not discarded.

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