Efficient data transmission with TCP
In this lesson, we'll study the main data transfer mechanisms used by TCP.
We'll cover the following...
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:
- Send a TCP segment as soon as the application has requested the transmission of some data.
- Advantage: This
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