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Chapter 4<br />

Transmission Control Protocol<br />

The movement of bits across a network requires both hardware <strong>and</strong> software<br />

to co-ordinate the copying of data from one machine to another. The dynamics<br />

<strong>and</strong> performance of this interaction is presented in the previous chapter<br />

<strong>and</strong> in Appendix A. Real world transfers of data were conducted. It was<br />

found that the performance of TCP from Switzerl<strong>and</strong> to Engl<strong>and</strong> was only<br />

half that of the UDP protocol.<br />

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) [Pos81b, Bra89, APS99] is the<br />

most widely used transport protocol in the Internet <strong>and</strong> provides applications<br />

with reliable, byte-oriented delivery of data on top of the stateless Internet<br />

Protocol. In this chapter we look more closely at TCP to find out why it has<br />

become the de-facto transport protocol on the Internet.<br />

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