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Module 2: Data Link Layer & MAC Sublayer

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Station A needs to send a message consisting of 9 packets to Station B using a sliding window (window size 3) and go-back-n error control strategy. All packets are ready and immediately available for transmission. If every 5th packet that A transmits gets lost (but no packets from B ever get lost), then what is the number of packets that A will transmit for sending the message to B?

(i) 12
(ii) 14
(iii) 16
(iv) 18

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