Efficiency versus Delay for a Sliding-Window Data-Link Control Protocol

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This Demonstration gives the efficiency of a sliding-window data-link control protocol as a function of the delay between a sender and a receiver. The link rate, frame (or packet) size and window size (in frames) are adjustable parameters. This link is assumed to be error free.
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Contributed by: Victor S. Frost (August 25)
(University of Kansas)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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The following parameter definitions and relationships are used:
is the link rate (b/s),
is the effective transmission rate in bits/sec =
,
is the efficiency,
is the one-way delay (sec),
is the window size,
is the frame size (bits).
If , then
(large-window case).
If , then
(small-window case).
References
[1] A. Leon-Garcia and I. Widjaja, Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures, 2nd ed., Boston: McGraw Hill, 2004.
[2] A. Tanenbaum and D. J. Wetherall, Computer Networks, 5th ed., Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011.
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