12. TCP: The Transmission Control Protocol (Preliminaries)
12.1. Introduction
So far we have been discussing protocols that do not include their own mechanisms for delivering data reliably. They may detect that erroneous data has been received, using a mathematical function such as a checksum or CRC, but they do not try very hard to repair errors. With IP and UDP, no error repair is done at all. With Ethernet and other protocols based on it, the protocol provides some number of retries and then gives up if it cannot succeed.
The problem of communicating in environments where the communication medium may lose or alter the messages being delivered has been studied for years. Some of the most important theoretical work on the topic was developed ...
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