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Data Communications and Computer Networks by Pearson
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Data Communications and Computer Networks by Pearson

by Rohit Khurana
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced
309 pages
13h 33m
English
Pearson India
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Flow and Error Control
1. Differentiatebetweenflo controlanderrorcontrol.
Ans: Flow control and error control are the most important functions of data link layer. Flowcontrol
refers to a set of procedures that allows the communicating devices having different speed and memory
characteristics to communicate with each other in an efficient manner. It ensures that a slow receiver is
not being flooded by the fast sender. Thus, flow control restricts the amount of data that can be sent from
the sender before waiting to receive an acknowledgement (ACK) from the receiver. Each receiver has
a block of memory known as buffer for reserving ...
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