Why Do Internet Packets Get Dropped? 🤔

The tranmission control protocol (TCP) is designed to repair packets dropped by the unreliable internet protocol (IP) layer. But why are packets dropped in the first place? On the wired internet the answer was usually congestion. But the wireless internet is making the answer to this question much more interesting.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the https://www.internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.