Reliable Transport

original readme file

For Reliable transport By Flow control

• stop and wait
• go back n
• selective repeat

Reliable condition

Your sender should provide reliable service under the following network conditions:

• Loss: arbitrary levels; you should be able to handle periods of 100% packet loss.
• Corruption: arbitrary types and frequency.
• Re-ordering: may arrive in any order, and
• Duplication: you could see a packet any number of times.
• Delay: packets may be delayed indefinitely (but in practice, generally not more than 10s).

Sliding window

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_window_protocol

packet loss

https://www.performancevision.com/blog/network-packet-loss-retransmissions-and-duplicate-acknowledgements/