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In Go-Back-N window, when the timer of the packet times out, several packets have to be resent even some may have arrived safe. Whereas in Selective Repeat window, the sender resends ___________(a) Packet which are not lost(b) Only those packets which are lost or corrupted(c) Packet from starting(d) All the packetsThis question was posed to me in a national level competition.I need to ask this question from Congestion Control topic in portion Frame Relay of Computer Network

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Right option is (b) Only those packets which are lost or corrupted

Explanation: In Selective REPEAT, the sender SIDE uses a searching algorithm to find the packets which NEED to be retransmitted based on the negative ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS received and then resends only those packets thus saving bandwidth.



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