The magnitude of delay variation, called , is a critical factor in real-time applications

The magnitude of delay variation, called jitter, is a critical factor in real-time applications.

This delay variations or jitters are caused by queuing, contention and serialization effects. Jitter is used in the electronics and telecommunications. It is called Jitter timing when used in clock recovery applications.

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