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61.1 Introduction
Transmission control protocol (TCP) is a part of TCP/Internet protocol (IP) suite [STD7,C02-1,F10,
GW03,PD07].
It
provides
full
transport
layer
services
to
applications.
It
belongs
to
the
transport
layer
in
the
TCP/IP
suite
model
as
shown
in
Figure
61.1.
TCP
is
more
complicated
than
user
datagram
protocol
(UDP)
and
provides
a
reliable
connection
between
both
ends
of
transmission.
is
connection
needs
to
be
set
up,
maintained,
and
torn
down.
e
protocol
divides
a
stream
of
data
into
units
of
limited
size
called
segments.
ese
segments
are
reassembled
in
a
reliable
way
at
the
other
end.
Reliability
is
achieved
by
assembl ...