0 used to describe computer data that is sent in short, sudden periods of activity: --
There is a new international standard for handling high-speed, bursty data over wide area networks.
Davies' key insight came in the realization that computer network traffic was inherently bursty with periods of silence, compared with relatively constant telephone traffic.
Traffic policing and traffic shaping are commonly used to protect the network against excess or excessively bursty traffic, see bandwidth management and congestion avoidance.
However, with self-similar data, one is confronted with traces which are spiky and bursty, even at large scales.
The main reason for doing this is to insulate the information bits from bursty noise.
Deep space communications are limited by the thermal noise of the receiver which is more of a continuous nature than a bursty nature.
For example, the traditional telephone network is too noisy and inefficient for bursty data communication.
Not all relay cells with low maintained discharges had bursty spike trains, though.
The first class are much more bursty than the binomial would predict.
