English to German Tech/Engineering Computers: Software software strings

Thema: Software strings einer social site.
Ich finde "decay rate" im med. und physik. Zusammenhang als Zerfallsrate, Abbaurate, Abbklingrate/quote.
Und in Google folgende Erklärung:
BGP, the core routing protocol on the Internet, has to maintain a routing table in order to remember the paths a packet can be deviated to. When one of these paths repeatedly changes its state from available to not available (and vice-versa), the BGP router controlling that path has to repeatedly add and remove the path record from its routing table (flaps the path), thus spending local resources such as CPU and RAM and, even more, broadcasting useless information to peer routers. To prevent this undesired behavior, an algorithm named route flapping damping assigns each route a weight that gets bigger each time the route changes its state and decays exponentially with time. When the weight reaches a certain limit, no more flapping is done, thus suppressing the route.
Aber wie wird es in diesem Zusammenhang im Deutschen verwendet?