AN-RG link

Finally, this is the slow link of the last mile, the reason why LFI is performed in the first place. Assuming that LFI played its role in the network as designed, by the time the transmission of one fragment on this link is completed, the next fragment arrives just in time for unblocked transmission. In between the two fragments, we can have one or more small high priority packets waiting in the queue for the transmission to complete.

On the AN-RG link in Figure: QoS hierarchy on LNS that packets P2 and P3 are ahead of fragments F2 and F3. Therefore the delay incurred on this link by the low priority packets is never greater than the transmission delay of the first fragment (50ms). The remaining two fragments, F2 and F3, can be queued and further delayed by the transmission time of packets P2 and P3 (which is normally small, in our example 3ms for each).

If many low priority packets are waiting in the queue, then they would have caused delay and would have further delayed the fragments that are in transit from the LNS to the LAC. This condition is normally caused by bursts and it should clear itself out over time.