I am looking for a publication-friendly term to describe the total quantity of data communicated between nodes of a distributed system, as invoked by some discrete operation. This term would describe the integral of the bandwidth over time.
For example, if node 0
sends 1 byte
to node 1
, and node 2
sends 3
bytes to node 3
, then the total comunicated data in this transaction is 4
bytes.
The wikipedia page on Bandwidth (computing) includes
Digital bandwidth should not be confused with:
Data transfer: which is the quantity of data transferred over a given period of time.
but this is hardly a 'term' to me, if used like "the total data transferred is..."
The closest term I could create myself is "aggregate payload", but this might suggest the exclusion of message overheads, according to the Wikipedia definition of Payload.
Is there any nomenclature recognised in the CS community for this kind of thing, or am I stuck with these verbose phrases?