Multiple choice

In which technique are the outgoing acknowledgements delayed temporarily and sent along with the next outgoing data frame as ACK field?

  1. Bit stuffing

  2. Sliding window protocol

  3. Piggybacking

  4. Multicasting

  5. Anycast

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Piggybacking is a bi-directional data transmission technique in the network layer (OSI model). It makes the most of the sent data frames from receiver to emitter, adding the confirmation that the data frame sent by the sender was received successfully (ACK acknowledge). This practically means, that instead of sending an acknowledgement in an individual frame it is piggy-backed on the data frame.