4.3 Example 3: Sending Data Packets with One Packet Lost in the Middle

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This may happen in a lossy network environment such as Wi-Fi or due to network congestion. In the current scenario, a Sender sends a number of packets to its Receiver, but one of them is never received by the Receiver. The events for sending the packets out is the same as in section 4.1.1. The following sections describe events for the packets received after the lost one.