Consider that you are in a bank queue behind 10 persons and estimate that the bank teller is taking around 5 minutes per customer to count currency. At queue management counter, it takes another 3 min to get token for each customer. Here 5 min and 3 min are respective service times for each...
Throughput
In general terms, throughput is the maximum rate of production or the maximum rate at which something can be processed [Wikipedia]. In real world we define any rate of processing as throughput, for example - Network throughput.
In network communications throughput is defined as the...