Question: . Compare Go - Back - N , Selective Repeat and TCP ARQ mechanisms. Assume that the timeout values for all the protocols are sufficiently

. Compare Go-Back-N, Selective Repeat and TCP ARQ mechanisms. Assume that the timeout values for all the protocols are sufficiently long such that 5 consecutive data segments and their corresponding ACKs can be received (if not lost in the channel) by the receiving host (Host B) and the sending host (Host A) respectively before the timeout. Suppose Host A sends 5 data segments to Host B, and the 2nd segment (sent from A) is lost. In the end, all 5 segments have been correctly received by Host B.
a) How many segments has Host A sent in total and how many ACKs has Host B sent in total? What are their sequence numbers? Answer this question for all the protocols.
b) If the timeout values for all the protocols are much longer than 5 RTTs, then which protocol successfully delivers all five data segments in shortest time interval and why?

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