abstract:Go-Back-N ARQ is a specific instance of the automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol, in which the sending process continues to send a number of frames specified by a window size even without receiving an acknowledgement (ACK) packet from the receiver. It is a special case of the general sliding window protocol with the transmit window size of N and receive window size of 1.
In order toprovidereliabledatatransmissionserviceondisturbedchannels, a modifiedGo-Back-N ARQprotocol is usedto retransmitdata by a communicationgateway.