The finite state machine of “stop and wait”
Sliding window可以填充满network pipe的capacity,比如bottleneck为10Mbps (Mega-bits per second), RTT(round trip time)为50ms,那么1s内能发送 1000/50 = 20次 rount trip,10Mbps/20 = 500Kbps, 每个Eternet frame大小为12bits,那么 500/12 ≈ 41 个 frame。每秒能发送约41
个frame。
The sliding window mechanism
The sliding window allows a “window” of unacknowledged packets in flight. (这里对比的stop and wait, which only allows one packet in flight,是一个极大的浪费)。