Flow Control
If you have a picture of what the network looks like:
How do we deal with:
- Dealing with lost data (what do we do?)
- Getting updates (not data) over the network from the other direction to confirm (to help with data recovery)
This is used at layer 2 and 4 protocols. We'll look at a few control protocols in this course.
Note
While ethernet doesn't support it, wireless will use a form of stop and wait protocol (see ARQ Protocol)