I am researching real time roadway traffic conditions, and since Big Data collects massive amounts of information, what amount of delay is expected from the time the data is collected, transmitted, processed, extracted, analyzed, and given meaningful results?
Dear Kt27ice!
While data transmission delay may occur due to many reasons and this delay is often caused by the data-rate of the link. The delay is proportional to the packet's length in bits i.e.:
Where:
 is the delay in transmission.
NÂ is the number of bits, and
RÂ is the rate of transmission (bits/second)
Delay may occur due to many reasons, for example:
1. Queuing Delay
2. Propagation Delay
3. Processing delay
4. Network delays and losses
Some useful links for your research are below:
http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/wolf/pubs/jsac2011.pdf
https://cis.temple.edu/~giorgio/cis307/readings/datatrans.html
