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The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) transforms the 'raw' IP into a full-duplex reliable character stream [Ref:RFC 793].

TCP uses a 'well-understood' sliding window with selective-repeat protocol, and conveys a number of important fields in its TCP frame header:

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CITS3002 Computer Networks, Lecture 8, Transport layer protocols and APIs, p3, 24th April 2024.