CSE 316 · Session 1 · try it yourself
Jitter — and what a buffer costs
Eight video frames leave the sender one every 30 ms, perfectly evenly — they do not arrive that way. Every pattern below has the same average delay; only the evenness changes.
How the network treats them
One row per stage — same clock across all three
You paid
0 ms
nothing — the first frame shows the instant it lands
The rule
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A buffer works when it is at least as long as the worst lateness in the stream.