December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 13m
English
The transmission control protocol (TCP) is one of the most popular and widely used end-to-end protocols for the Internet today. Unlike routing, where packets are relayed hop-by-hop toward their destination, TCP actually provides reliable end-to-end transmission of transport-level segments from source to receiver. Transport segments arrive in sequence and lost segments are recovered. Hence, TCP provides flow and congestion control functions, in addition to reliable transmission (i.e., through error recovery mechanisms).
Reliability in transmission involves the use of some form of handshake between the sender and receiver. Also, sequence numbers can be used to ensure in-sequence delivery of ...
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