Re: [Cse461] Some notes on Homework 1

From: Janet Davis (jlnd_at_cs.washington.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 22 2004 - 19:34:56 PST

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    On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Lawrence Lu wrote:

    > Sorry, one more question. On problem 5a, when you ask "what would this
    > throughput be in practice if stop-and-wait were used on a cross-country
    > connection". How is this related to the expression we calculated in the
    > first part of the question? If I'm not mistaken, stop-and-wait is only
    > sending 1 packet at a time and not sending a new packet until an ack is
    > received or theres a timeout on the ack.

    Stop-and-wait is the degenerate case of sliding window. It's a sliding
    window of size 1.

    Cheers,
    Janet 

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