3. Automatic repeat request (ARQ) – turn an unreliable data link into a reliable one Anytime an error is detected in an exchange, a negative ack (NAK) is returned and the specified frames are retransmitted. Retransmission of data in three cases: damaged frame, lost frame, and lost ack.
26. In Sliding Window Flow Control/ ARQ, The window size need not be the maximum possible size for a given sequence number length. The size of the window is n-1. Why? Question