Head-of-line blocking
Performance-limiting phenomenon in computer networks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Head-of-line blocking (HOL blocking) in computer networking is a performance-limiting phenomenon that occurs when a queue of packets is held up by the first packet in the queue. This occurs, for example, in input-buffered network switches, out-of-order delivery and multiple requests in HTTP pipelining.