Calculate the efficiency (utilization) of the Stop-and-Wait ARQ protocol for the following scenario. Assume that errors are rare and ACK acknowledgments are very short frames (packets).
A satellite link where the link length is 40,000 km, the data transmission rate is 15 Mbps, and the frame size is 1000 bytes.
Answer
a. ~0.2%
b. ~20%
c. ~10%
d. ~39%