Hi, i am hoping to get some clarification on this statement from pg. 20 of Wk. 5 lecture "The leaky bucket algorithm enables an application to generate bursty traffic (high volume, for a short period) without saturating the network". I would've though the leaky bucket algo would generate a smoother, more consistent type of traffic because the data is drained from the bucket at a fixed rate, regardless of whether there has been a burst of traffic / bucket is full or not. And the token bucket algo would generate bursty traffic, as you save up tokens?

I think the statement is pointing out that even though an application (a node) is generating bursty traffic. Because this traffic is being fed into the leaky bucket algorithm, it doesn't saturate the network as the leaky bucket only permits a specified number of packets to enter the subnet at a given time. Thus, giving the application the ability to generate bursty traffic, as it can generate bursty traffic but the leaky bucket algorithm slows it down when entering the network.

ANONYMOUS wrote: Hello, yes, you are correct. I have corrected the last sentence on each of page 20 and page 21. (There seems to have been some poor cut-and-paste going on there - I wonder for how many years it went un-noticed...?) Thanks.