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Efficient data transmission with TCP

Efficient data transmission with TCP

In this lesson, we'll study the main data transfer mechanisms used by TCP.

Segment Transmission Strategies

In a transport protocol such as TCP that offers a byte stream, a practical issue that was left as an implementation choice in RFC 793 was when a new TCP segment should be sent.

There are two simple and extreme implementation choices:

  1. Send a TCP segment as soon as the application has requested the transmission of some data.
    • Advantage: This
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