Round-trip delay time
In telecommunications, the term round-trip delay time or round-trip time (RTT) has the following meanings:
Another definition for round-trip delay time is the time required for a signal pulse or packet to travel from a specific source to a specific destination and back again.
In the context of computer networks, the source is the host transmitting the packet and the destination is the remote computer that receives the packet and retransmits it back to the source.
This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C" (in support of MIL-STD-188).
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