TrueTimeDelay
Truetimedelay is a measure of the actual elapsed time experienced by a signal or data unit as it traverses a system or network. It represents the true end-to-end delay from origin to destination, including all sources of delay, and is distinguished from nominal or locally observed latency that can be affected by buffering, retransmission, or clock differences. In practice, truetimedelay is used to analyze synchronization, performance, and timing integrity in distributed systems.
A truetimedelay can be decomposed into several components: propagation delay (time for a signal to travel through
Measuring truetimedelay requires time synchronization and careful accounting. One-way delay measurements rely on synchronized clocks using
Applications include network performance monitoring, real-time communications, distributed control systems, and multimedia streaming, where precise timing
See also: latency, end-to-end delay, time synchronization, jitter, propagation delay, queuing delay.