traffic engineering

1. The inexact science of predicting the volume of future traffic and equipping a

network with enough switching and transmission resources to handle that volume, thereby providing end users with a satisfactory grade of service (GoS). See also Erlang, Erlang B, Erlang C, Equivalent Queue Extended Erlang B, Extended Erlang B, GoS, Poisson distribution, and traffic.

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• loss
• loss budget
• lossless compression
• lossy compression
• low delay code excited linear prediction (LD-CELP)
• low earth orbit (LEO)
• low frequency (LF)
• Low Income Consumers Program
• low-order mode
• low-pass filter
• Low-Power Radio Service (LPRS)
• Low-Power Radio Service (LPRS)
• low-tier
• low-tier
• low voltage (LV)
• low-water-peak fiber (LWPF)
• LPC (Linear Predictive Coding)
• lpi (lines per inch)
• LPRS (Low-Power Radio Service)
• LRC (Longitudinal Redundancy Check)
• LRN (Location Routing Number)
• LSB (Least Significant Bit)
• LSP (Label Switched Path)
• LSR (Label Switching Router)
• Luddite