Leaky bucket

Question

Answer 1

Leaky Bucket strategy tries to give the average of all bursty outputs :

15*3 + 6*2 + 5*3 = 72 Mb

This amount is produced in 3+2+2+2+3 = 12 sec .

Avg output is 72/12 = 6Mbps .

Ans B.

Comments

How does it decide lets say at time t = 3 that it has to send at 6Mbps when it hasnt seen the future bursts of data? What will be the output rate at any intermediate point?