January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
14h 16m
English
In this chapter: |
The reliable service of TCP requires that all segments containing data be acknowledged by the receiver. When an acknowledgment (ACK) for a segment is not received, the sender must retransmit the segment. The method by which the sender detects that a segment was not received can have a direct impact on performance. This chapter describes how TCP measures the expected time within which to receive an ACK and how it detects and recovers from lost segments.
For each connection, TCP maintains a ...
Read now
Unlock full access