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- QoS
Quality of service: A set of metrics used to measure and manipulate the quality of transmission and service availability of any given transmission system.
- queue
Broadly, any list of elements arranged in an orderly fashion and ready for processing, such as a line of people waiting to enter a movie theater. In routing, it refers to a backlog of information packets waiting in line to be transmitted over a router interface.
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