Sliding Window

Sliding window uses sequence number and sliding window to more efficiently use network bandwidth

Time

Sender

Receiver

Stop and wait with one-bit sequence number

Sliding

window

Time

Sender

Receiver

Frame 0

ACK 0

Frame 1

ACK 1

Frame 2

ACK 2

Frame 3

ACK 3

Sliding window

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