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Head-of-line blocking
Head-of-line blocking
(
HOL blocking
) in
computer networking
is a performance-limiting phenomenon that occurs when a line of
packet
s is held-up by the first packet, for example in input
buffer
ed
network switches
,
out-of-order delivery
, and multiple requests in
HTTP pipelining
.
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