The Top Down book by Kurose and Ross is hands-down one of the best books for Networking and is very relevant even today to understand the patterns.
Things like retries, backoffs, checksumming, error detection etc. can be done in multiple layers of the networking stack and often is done in multiple layers.
Things like retries, backoffs, checksumming, error detection etc. can be done in multiple layers of the networking stack and often is done in multiple layers.