Selective repeat protocol, also called Selective Repeat ARQ (Automatic Repeat reQuest), is a data link layer protocol that uses sliding window method for reliable delivery of data frames. Here, only the erroneous or lost frames are retransmitted, while the good frames are received and buffered.
It uses two windows of equal size: a sending window that stores the frames to be sent and a receiving window that stores the frames receive by the receiver. The size is half the maximum sequence number of the frame. For example, if the sequence number is from 0 – 15, the window size will be 8.
Selective Repeat protocol provides for sending multiple frames depending upon the availability of frames in the sending window, even if it does not receive acknowledgement for any frame in the interim. The maximum number of frames that can be sent depends upon the size of the sending window.
The receiver records the sequence number of the earliest incorrect or un-received frame. It then fills the receiving window with the subsequent frames that it has received. It sends the sequence number of the missing frame along with every acknowledgement frame.
The sender continues to send frames that are in its sending window. Once, it has sent all the frames in the window, it retransmits the frame whose sequence number is given by the acknowledgements. It then continues sending the other frames.
begin frame s; //s denotes frame to be sent frame t; //t is temporary frame S_window = power(2,m-1); //Assign maximum window size SeqFirst = 0; // Sequence number of first frame in window SeqN = 0; // Sequence number of Nth frame window while (true) //check repeatedly do Wait_For_Event(); //wait for availability of packet if ( Event(Request_For_Transfer)) then //check if window is full if (SeqN–SeqFirst >= S_window) then doNothing(); end if; Get_Data_From_Network_Layer(); s = Make_Frame(); s.seq = SeqN; Store_Copy_Frame(s); Send_Frame(s); Start_Timer(s); SeqN = SeqN + 1; end if; if ( Event(Frame_Arrival) then r = Receive_Acknowledgement(); //Resend frame whose sequence number is with ACK if ( r.type = NAK) then if ( NAK_No > SeqFirst && NAK_No < SeqN ) then Retransmit( s.seq(NAK_No)); Start_Timer(s); end if //Remove frames from sending window with positive ACK else if ( r.type = ACK ) then Remove_Frame(s.seq(SeqFirst)); Stop_Timer(s); SeqFirst = SeqFirst + 1; end if end if // Resend frame if acknowledgement haven’t been received if ( Event(Time_Out)) then Start_Timer(s); Retransmit_Frame(s); end if end
Begin frame f; RSeqNo = 0; // Initialise sequence number of expected frame NAKsent = false; ACK = false; For each slot in receive_window Mark(slot)=false; while (true) //check repeatedly do Wait_For_Event(); //wait for arrival of frame if ( Event(Frame_Arrival) then Receive_Frame_From_Physical_Layer(); if ( Corrupted ( f.SeqNo ) AND NAKsent = false) then SendNAK(f.SeqNo); NAKsent = true; end if if ( f.SeqNo != RSeqNo AND NAKsent = false ) then SendNAK(f.SeqNo); NAKsent = true; if ( f.SeqNo is in receive_window ) then if ( Mark(RSeqNo) = false ) then Store_frame(f.SeqNo); Mark(RSeqNo) = true; end if end if else while ( Mark(RSeqNo)) Extract_Data(RSeqNo); Deliver_Data_To_Network_Layer(); RSeqNo = RSeqNo + 1; Send_ACK(RSeqNo); end while end if end if end while end
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