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delay its acknowledgment to ensure it can service the next segment

without losing data. Conversely, if a receiver has free and available

buffer space, it may allow multiple segments to be transmitted to it

and quickly acknowledge the segments.

TCP forms segments sequentially in memory. Each segment of

memory waits for an IP header to be added to form a datagram for

transmission. A window is placed over this series of datagrams that

structures three types of data: data transmitted and acknowledged,

data transmitted but not yet acknowledged, and data waiting to be

transmitted. Because this window slides over the three ...