Interpreting Latency and Bandwidth
- Bandwidth is the inverse of the slope of the line
time = latency + (1/rate) size_of_message
- Latency is sometimes described as �time to send a message of zero bytes�. This is true only for the simple model. The number quoted is sometimes misleading.
Interpreting Latency and Bandwidth
Latency
1/slope=Bandwidth
Message Size
Time
to Send
Message
Not latency