Friday, June 11, 2021

Error Flow Control and Error Correction in Data Communications

Are Error Correction methods considered protocols? For example, my syllabus covers:
Error Flow Control methods: Stop-and-Wait, Sliding Window
Error Correction methods: Forward Error Correction, Automatic Repeat Request, Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request
while I was doing research to better understand these topics, I noticed how Stop-and-Wait was referred to as 'Stop-and-Wait Protocol' and Sliding Window was referred to as 'Sliding Window Protocol'. However, I never saw any of the Error Correction methods referred to as 'Forward Error Correction Protocol' or 'Automatic Repeat Request Protocol'. Is it because Error Correction methods simply can't be referred to as protocols while Error Flow Control methods can?



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