Automatic repeat request

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Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) (or Automatic Repeat-Query) is an error control method for data transmission which uses acknowledgments and timeouts to achieve reliable data transmission. An acknowledgment is a message sent by the receiver to the transmitter to indicate that it has correctly received a data frame or packet. A timeout is a reasonable point in time after the sender sends the frame/packet; if the sender does not receive an acknowledgment before the timeout, it usually re-transmits the frame/packet until it receives an acknowledgment or exceeds a predefined number of re-transmissions.

Types of ARQ protocol include Stop-and-wait ARQ, Go-Back-N ARQ and Selective Repeat ARQ. These protocols reside in the Data Link Layer or Transport Layer of the OSI model.

A variation of ARQ is Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) which has better performance, particularly over wireless channels, at the cost of increased implementation complexity.

References

  • Peterson and Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Third Edition, 2003
  • RFC 3366 - Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ)
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