tcp flow control and congestion control
TCP Reliability and Flow Control Explained
TCP takes data from an application, breaks it into segments, wraps each one in a header, and hands it off to IP for delivery across the network. None of that guarantees the segments arrive in order, or that they arrive at all. Reliability and flow control are the two mechanisms that turn an unreliable network...
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Explained
Transmission Control Protocol, TCP, is a transport-layer protocol in the OSI model. It’s what actually creates a reliable connection between two remote computers, guaranteeing that data sent from one side arrives at the other, intact and in order. When the application layer has data to send, it hands that data down to the transport layer,...