Everything about Bottleneck Engineering totally explained
In
engineering,
bottleneck is a phenomenon where the performance or capacity of an entire system is severely limited by a single component. The component is sometimes called a
bottleneck point. The term is metaphorically derived from the
neck of a bottle, where the flow speed of the liquid is limited by its neck.
Formally, a bottleneck lies on a system's
critical path and provides the lowest throughput. Bottlenecks are usually avoided by system designers, also a great amount of effort is directed at locating and tuning them. Bottleneck may be for example a
processor, a
communication link, a data processing
software, etc.
Bottlenecks in software
In
computer programming, tracking down bottlenecks is called
performance analysis. This is usually done with specialized tools, called
profilers.
Bottlenecks in max-min fairness
In a
communication network, sometimes a
max-min fairness of the network is desired, usually opposed to the basic
first-come first-served policy. With max-min fairness, data flow between any two nodes is maximized, but only at the cost of
more or equally expensive data flows. To put it other way, in case of network congestion any data flow is only impacted by smaller or equal flows.
In such context, a
bottleneck link for a given data flow is a link that's fully utilized (is
saturated) and of all the flows sharing this link, the given data flow achieves maximum data rate network-wide. Note that this definition is substantially different from a common meaning of a
bottleneck. Also note, that this definition doesn't forbid a single link to be a bottleneck for multiple flows.
A data rate allocation is max-min fair if and only if a data flow between any two nodes has at least one bottleneck link.
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