SLIDING WINDOW

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Sliding window is a method of flow control in which a source may send more than one packet without acknowledgement from the sink. The number of packets is provided by a ‘window’ size that can often be increased and decreased to control congestion within a network.


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to Sliding window include: 
 
  • Address resolution
  • Connection-oriented
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  • Multicast address
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  • Connectionless
  • SNMP (Simple network management protocol)

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