What is the advantage of sliding window flow control over stop-wait flow control?

As compared to stop-and-wait flow control the sliding window flow control has a far better performance. This is because in a wireless environment data rates are very low and noise level is very high, so waiting for an acknowledge for every packet that is transfered does not seem feasible. Thus,Transferring data as a bulk ( Once the medium is allocated ) would yield a better performance in terms of higher throughput. So the choice is sliding window flow control. Sliding window flow control is a point to point protocol assuming that no other entity tries to communicate until the current data transfer is complete by truqchalar