Leaky bucket

Of the leaky bucket algorithm is a simple method for traffic shaping. It is thus regulated the amount of transmitted data. The maximum data rate is limited. A similar algorithm is the token bucket algorithm.

All packages are sorted into a FIFO queue. This snake is characterized by two properties.

Of the leaky bucket algorithm is used in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), where it is also called Generic Cell Rate Algorithm ( GCRA ).