Table of Contents - Chapter 25

TCP: Reliable Transport Service


25.1 Introduction 375
25.2 The Need For Reliable Transport 375
25.3 The Transmission Control Protocol 376
25.4 The Service TCP Provides To Applications 376
25.5 End-To-End Service And Datagrams 377
25.6 Achieving Reliability 378
25.7 Packet Loss And Retransmission 379
25.8 Adaptive Retransmission 380
25.9 Comparison Of Retransmission Times 381
25.10 Buffers, Flow Control, And Windows 381
25.11 Three-Way Handshake 383
25.12 Congestion Control 384
25.13 TCP Segment Format 385
25.14 Summary 386
Exercises 386