Question
Answer true or false to the following questions and briefly justify youranswer:
a. With the SR protocol, it is possible for the sender to receive an ACK for a packet that falls outside of its current window.
b. With GBN, it is possible for the sender to receive an ACK for a packet that falls outside of its current window.
c. The alternating-bit protocol is the same as the SR protocol with a sender and receiver window size of 1.
d. The alternating-bit protocol is the same as the GBN protocol with a sender and receiver window size of 1.
Answer
True.
True.
True.
True.
Discussions
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a) True. Suppose the sender has a window size of 3 and sends packets 1, 2, 3 at t0 . At
t1 (t1 > t0) the receiver ACKS 1, 2, 3. At t2 (t2 > t1) the sender times out and
resends 1, 2, 3. At t3 the receiver receives the duplicates and re-acknowledges 1, 2,
3. At t4 the sender receives the ACKs that the receiver sent at t1 and advances its
window to 4, 5, 6. At t5 the sender receives the ACKs 1, 2, 3 the receiver sent at t2 .
These ACKs are outside its window.
b) True. By essentially the same scenario as in (a).
c) True.
d) True. Note that with a window size of 1, SR, GBN, and the alternating bit protocol
are functionally equivalent. The window size of 1 precludes the possibility of out-oforder
packets (within the window). A cumulative ACK is just an ordinary ACK in
this situation, since it can only refer to the single packet within the window.
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Dr siraj rathore said that: Bata Lun Phuy Chaur.
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