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Selective Repeat ARQ

Pipelined window; the receiver buffers out-of-order frames so only the lost one is resent.

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Frame
ACK
Lost
Retransmission
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Selective Repeat also pipelines a window of frames, but the receiver is smart: it buffers frames that arrive out of order instead of discarding them, and acknowledges each frame individually. So when one frame is lost, only that single frame is resent — the early arrivals are kept and delivered once the gap is filled. Least retransmission of the three ARQ schemes, at the cost of buffering and bookkeeping on both sides.
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Same full pipe, but a smart receiver buffers what arrives early and ACKs each frame. Only the genuinely lost frame is resent — least waste, most bookkeeping.
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