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<h2 id="traffic-shaping">Traffic shaping</h2> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Traffic_shaping/VCF0Gb3b">Traffic shaping</a></p> <p>Traffic shaping is the retiming (delaying) of <a href="/facts/Network_packet/xCYf8SJu">packets</a> (or <a href="/facts/Frame_(networking)/ltGCbJIq">frames</a>) until they meet specified bandwidth and or <a href="/facts/Burstiness/aVGszauw">burstiness</a> limits.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Since such delays involve queues that are nearly always finite and, once full, excess traffic is nearly always dropped (discarded), traffic shaping nearly always implies traffic policing as well. </p> <h2 id="traffic-policing">Traffic policing</h2> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Traffic_policing_(communications)/zNrtT9KP">Traffic policing (communications)</a></p> <p>Traffic policing is the dropping (discarding) or reduction in priority (demoting) of packets (or frames) that exceed some specified bandwidth and or burstiness limit. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>M. Noormohammadpour, C. S. Raghavendra, "Datacenter Traffic Control: Understanding Techniques and Trade-offs," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1. <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321744877_Datacenter_Traffic_Control_Understanding_Techniques_and_Trade-offs" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321744877_Datacenter_Traffic_Control_Understanding_Techniques_and_Trade-offs</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>M. Noormohammadpour, C. S. Raghavendra, "Datacenter Traffic Control: Understanding Techniques and Trade-offs," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1. <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321744877_Datacenter_Traffic_Control_Understanding_Techniques_and_Trade-offs" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321744877_Datacenter_Traffic_Control_Understanding_Techniques_and_Trade-offs</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>M. Noormohammadpour, C. S. Raghavendra, "Datacenter Traffic Control: Understanding Techniques and Trade-offs," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1. <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321744877_Datacenter_Traffic_Control_Understanding_Techniques_and_Trade-offs" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321744877_Datacenter_Traffic_Control_Understanding_Techniques_and_Trade-offs</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>