Selective Repeat

• receiver individually acknowledges all correctly received pkts

  • buffers pkts, as needed, for eventual in-order delivery to upper layer

• sender only resends pkts for which ACK not received

  • sender timer for each unACKed pkt

• sender window

  • N consecutive seq #’s
  • again limits seq #s of sent, unACKed pkts

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