Communications and Networking:

Consider a simple application level protocol built on top of UDP that allows a client to retrieve a file from a remote server residing at a well known address. The client first sends a request with file name, and the server responds with a sequence of data packets containing different parts of the requested file. To ensure reliability and sequenced delivery, client and server use a stop - and - wait protocol. Ignoring the obvious performance issue, do you see a problem with this protocol? Think carefully about the possibility of processes crashing.