2 first
4 second
8 3rd
16 4th
17 5th
18(new threshod =9) time out occure here 6th
1
2
4 9th Transmission
8 ( window size after 9th transmission)
(There is an ambiguity here if the window size will be 1 MSS or 2 MSS as given in the question )
At the congestion detection phase on timeout, the TO timer expires before receiving the ACK for a segment.in this case, the sender reacts as:
At 9th transmission, the congestion window size should be 8MSS.
Note: at $t=1,2,3$ is the slow start phase, $t=4$ is the threshold, and $t=5$ is the congestion avoidance phase.