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A practice of holding aircraft on the ground in anticipation of congestion at destination airspace and airports
Laws, regulations, and economic incentives or disincentives used by waste managers to direct waste generated in a specific geographic area to a designated landfill, recycling, or waste-to-energy facility
A process of managing the rate of data transmission between two nodes to prevent a fast sender from outrunning a slow receiver
A method of controlling the amount of data that two devices exchange In data communications, flow control prevents one modem from "flooding" the other with data If data comes in faster than it can be processed, the receiving side stores the data in a buffer When the buffer is nearly full, the receiving side signals the sending side to stop until the buffer has space again Between hardware (such as your modem and your computer), hardware flow control is used; between modems, software flow control is used
Flow Control is necessary to regulate data flow between 2 devices with dramatically different data transmission speeds (such as a dot matrix serial printer and an RS-232 interface connection) Flow Control is needed to regulate data flow, to ensure that the two devices can communicate with minimal loss of data RS-232 communication uses one of two basic approaches to enforce Flow Control
The procedure for controlling the rate of transfer of packets between two designated points in a data network; used to prevent data loss during transmission
A mechanism that controls the transfer of data between sending and receiving devices It prevents the sending devices from sending packets at rates that the receiving devices can accommodate
The way in which information is controlled in a network to prevent loss of data when the receiving buffer is near its capacity
What is flow control, and how do I set my modem to use it?
A mechanism that compensates for differences in the flow of data to and output from a modem or computer Either hardware or software can be used for this control to prevent data loss Hardware flow control using the modem makes use of a buffer to store data to be sent and data received Flow control is necessary if the Communications port is locked at a higher rate than the connection rate
  See transmit flow control
flow quenching mechanism used in reliable communications protocols to regulate the flow of information that lets a process receiving the flow temporarily stop the generating process until the receiving process is able to handle more information
When processing capability between 2 devices are dramatically different, say dot matrix serial printer and RS-232, Flow Control is necessary to regulate data flow to ensure the communicate There are basically 2 approaches to do flow control for RS-232 communication
A protocol mechanism that lets the receiving end of a data stream control the rate at which the sending end transmits data, so that the receiving end does not run out of buffer space and lose data Software flow control uses two special characters, X-ON and X-OFF to enable and disable the flow of data from transmitter to receiver, while hardware flow control uses the RS-232-C hardware pins RTS and CTS (request-to-send and clear-to-send) to produce the same result Hardware flow control is generally more reliable because the reverse channel used to send the X-ON and X-OFF might become backlogged and result in data loss on the other channel
The procedures for controlling the rate of transfer of data between two points in a data network, such as between a protocol converter and a printer This avoids data loss when a recipient device's buffer is full Buffers play an essential role in overall flow control in a network
control of data transfer between two computers
This modem feature often reserves certain control characters (i e , CTRL+c, CTRL+s, etc ) that lets the communications software manage the flow of data between your computer and the remote computer These control characters are also used by many programs, such as the Emacs editor If your modem has XON/XOFF turned on, it will intercept these control characters and prevent them from being sent to the file you are trying to edit
A router controls the progress of data through the network in a process called flow control It ensures that other routers are not being congested by a heavy traffic flow, and it will route around congestion points
Control of the rate that data is sent from one computer to another via telecommunications This allows a fast computer or modem to communicate with a slower one
Compensates for the difference between the rate at which data reaches a device and the rate at which the device processes and transmits The two common types of flow control are RTS/CTS signaling (a hardware based method, employing an electrical signal) and XON/XOFF (a software-based method using standard ASCII control characters to pause or resume transmission) The \G command controls XON/XOFF flow control
Also called handshake The processes used to regulate the rate at which information is transferred from one device to another One device sends a signal to the other when information can be transferred
A device designed to limit the flow of water or regenerant to a predetermined value over a broad range of inlet water pressures
A method of compensating for the differences in the flow of incoming and outgoing data for a modem or other device If one system receives more datathan it can hold in its buffers or process at a given time, it signals the sender to pause the transmission
In communications, the management of transmission between two devices It is concerned with the timing of signals and enables slower-speed devices to communicate with higher-speed ones There are various techniques (implemented by both hardware and software), but all are designed to ensure that the receiving station is able to accept the next block of data before the sending station sends it See xon-xoff
Compensation for the difference between the rate at which data reaches a device and the rate at which the device processes and transmits
The process of controlling data transmission at the sender to avoid overfilling buffers and loss of data at the receiver
  See transmit flow control
A method of controlling when information is sent One method is Xon/Xoff, where a BBS will send information until your computer sends an Xoff (CTRL-S) It will resume sending information when you send an Xon [See also Xon/Xoff, CTS/RTS]
flow control valve
A flow control valve regulates the flow or pressure of a fluid. Control valves normally respond to signals generated by independent devices such as flow meters or temperature gauges
flow control

    Hyphenation

    flow con·trol

    Turkish pronunciation

    flō kıntrōl

    Pronunciation

    /ˈflō kənˈtrōl/ /ˈfloʊ kənˈtroʊl/
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