Traffic flow (computer networking)
SEQUENCE OF PACKETS FROM A SOURCE COMPUTER TO A DESTINATION, WHICH MAY BE ANOTHER HOST, A MULTICAST GROUP, OR A BROADCAST DOMAIN
Packet flow; Communication flow; Flow (computer networking)
In packet switching networks, traffic flow, packet flow or network flow is a sequence of packets from a source computer to a destination, which may be another host, a multicast group, or a broadcast domain. RFC 2722 defines traffic flow as "an artificial logical equivalent to a call or connection.