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Noiseless and Noise Channel Protocols

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November 1, 2016
Published By : Pratik Kataria
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Taxonomy of Protocols

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The design of the simplest protocol with no flow or error control

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Simplest Protocol

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The sender sends a sequence of frames without even thinking about the receiver.
To send three frames, three events occur at the sender site and three events at the receiver site.
Note that the data frames are shown by tilted boxes; the height of the box defines the transmission time difference between the first bit and the last bit in the frame.

Design of Stop-and-Wait Protocol

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Stop-and-Wait Protocol

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The sender sends one frame and waits for feedback from the receiver.
When the ACK arrives, the sender sends the next frame.

NOISY CHANNELS

Although the Stop-and-Wait Protocol gives us an idea of how to add flow control to its predecessor, noiseless channels are nonexistent. We discuss three protocols in this section that use error control.

  • Stop-and-Wait Automatic Repeat Request
  • Go-Back-N Automatic Repeat Request
  • Selective Repeat Automatic Repeat Request

Error correction in Stop-and-Wait ARQ is done by keeping a copy of the sent frame and retransmitting of the frame when the timer expires.

Sequence Numbers

Frames from a sender are numbered sequentially.
We need to set a limit since we need to include the sequence number of each frame in the header.
If the header of the frame allows m bits for sequence number, the sequence numbers range from 0 to 2 m – 1. for m = 3, sequence numbers are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
We can repeat the sequence number.
Sequence numbers are:
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 0, 1, …

Note: In Stop-and-Wait ARQ, we use sequence numbers to number the frames. The sequence numbers are based on modulo-2 arithmetic.

In Stop-and-Wait ARQ, the acknowledgment number always announces in modulo-2 arithmetic the sequence number of the next frame expected.

Design of the Stop-and-Wait ARQ Protocol

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Stop-and-Wait ARQ Protocol

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Frame 0 is sent and acknowledged.
Frame 1 is last and resent after the time-out.
The resent frame 1 is acknowledged and the timer stops.
Frame 0 is sent and acknowledged, but the acknowledgement is lost.
The sender has no idea if the frame or the acknowledgment is lost, so after the time-out, it resends frame 0, which is acknowledged.

Note: In the Go-Back-N Protocol, the sequence numbers are modulo 2m, where m is the size of the sequence number field in bits.

Send (sliding) window for Go-Back-N ARQ

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Note: The send window is an abstract concept defining an imaginary box of size 2m − 1 with three variables: Sf, Sn, and Ssize.

The send window can slide one or more slots when a valid acknowledgment arrives.

Receive (sliding) window for Go-Back-N ARQ

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Note: The receive window is an abstract concept defining an imaginary box of size 1 with one single variable Rn. The window slides when a correct frame has arrived; sliding occurs one slot at a time.

Design of Go-Back-N ARQ

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Window size for Go-Back-N ARQ

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Note: In Go-Back-N ARQ, the size of the send window must be less than 2m; the size of the receiver window is always 1.

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This is an example of a case where the forward channel is reliable, but the reverse is not.
No data frames are lost, but some ACKs are delayed and one is lost.
The example also shows how cumulative acknowledgments can help if acknowledgments are delayed or lost.
After initialization, there are seven sender events.
Request events are triggered by data from the network layer; arrival events are triggered by acknowledgement from the physical layer.
There is no time-out event here because all outstanding frames are acknowledged before the timer expires. Note that although ACK 2 is lost, ACK 3 serves as both ACK 2 and ACK 3.

Note: Stop-and-Wait ARQ is a special case of Go- Back-N ARQ in which the size of the send window is 1.

Send window for Selective Repeat ARQ

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Receive window for Selective Repeat ARQ

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Design of Selective Repeat ARQ

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Selective Repeat ARQ, window size

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Note: In Selective Repeat ARQ, the size of the sender and receiver window must be at most one-half of 2m.