This imperfection is known as jitter, and it's one of the most significant factors determining the performance and reliability of your network. The significant instant can be any convenient, easily. This introduction to jitter presents definitions for various jitter types including the random jitter types: Gaussian, cycle-to-cycle, adjacent cycle; and deterministic jitter types: duty cycle distortion, pulse width distortion, pulse skew and data dependent (pattern) jitter. DJ is characterized by its peak-to-peak value. Jitter refers to the deviation in the. Timing jitter (or simply "jitter") is an undesirable phenomenon inherent to any electrical system that represents timing information with voltage transitions.