Differentiate between leaky bucket and token bucket methods of traffic shaping
Sr no.
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Token Bucket
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Leaky Bucket
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1
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Token bucket is token dependent.
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Leaky bucket is token independent.
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2
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Block diagram token bucket.
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Block diagram of leaky bucket.
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3
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If bucket is full token are discarded but not
the packet.
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If bucket is full packet or data is discarded.
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4
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Token bucket allows for large bursts to be sent
faster by speeding up the output.
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Leaky bucket sends the packets at an average rate.
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5
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Token bucket allows saving up of tokens
(permission) to send large bursts.
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Leaky bucket does not allow saving a
constant rate is maintained.
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6
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Packets can only Transmitted when
there are enough token.
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Packet are transmitted continuously.
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7
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It save token.
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It is does not save token.
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