title: What is the difference between the delay and the jitter in the context of real time applications?
body: <p>According to Wikipedia <strong>Jitter is the undesired deviation from true periodicity of an assumed periodic signal</strong>, according to a papper on QoS that I am reading <strong>jitter is reffered to as delay variation</strong>. Are there any definition of the jitter in the context of real time applications? Are there applications that are sensitive to jitter but not sensitive to delay? If for example a streaming application use some kind of buffer to store packets before show them to the user, is it possible that this application is not sensitive to delay but is sensitive to jitter?</p>