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What happens to delay as upstream capacity approaches R/2?
What happens to delay as upstream capacity approaches R/2?
Which of the following causes a decrease in effective throughput?
Which of the following causes a decrease in effective throughput?
What does the end-to-end congestion control approach primarily rely on?
What does the end-to-end congestion control approach primarily rely on?
What is the role of the ECE bit in TCP?
What is the role of the ECE bit in TCP?
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Under idealized assumptions, how should TCP sessions share bandwidth at a bottleneck of R?
Under idealized assumptions, how should TCP sessions share bandwidth at a bottleneck of R?
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What happens to TCP throughput during a loss event?
What happens to TCP throughput during a loss event?
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What is the primary reason multimedia applications often use UDP instead of TCP?
What is the primary reason multimedia applications often use UDP instead of TCP?
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What is the function of explicit congestion notification (ECN) in TCP?
What is the function of explicit congestion notification (ECN) in TCP?
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What does TCP fairness aim to achieve among K TCP sessions sharing a bottleneck link?
What does TCP fairness aim to achieve among K TCP sessions sharing a bottleneck link?
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How does application behavior impact TCP connections?
How does application behavior impact TCP connections?
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Study Notes
Transport Layer Overview
- Provides logical communication between application processes on different hosts.
- Key transport protocols: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
Transport-layer Services
- Enables communication between application processes through segmentation.
- Sender breaks messages into segments and passes them to the network layer.
- Receiver reassembles segments into messages for the application layer.
Multiplexing and Demultiplexing
- Multiplexing at sender: combines data from multiple sockets, adding transport headers.
- Demultiplexing at receiver: uses header info to deliver segments to the correct application socket.
- Utilizes source and destination port numbers for correct data routing.
Connectionless Transport: UDP
- Connectorless, unreliable, and unordered delivery method.
- No guarantee for delivery, order, or connection establishment.
- Designed for applications sensitive to speed and can tolerate data loss (e.g., streaming).
- Usage in services like DNS, SNMP, and HTTP/3.
Connection-Oriented Transport: TCP
- Reliable, in-order delivery using acknowledgments and sequence numbers.
- Connection setup requires a handshake to initiate communication.
- Implements flow control to prevent overwhelming the receiver.
- Supports full duplex data flow and guarantees delivery.
Congestion Control Principles
- Distinct from flow control, focusing on managing data rate from multiple senders.
- Congestion leads to long delays and packet loss due to overloaded router buffers.
- Techniques involve end-to-end feedback mechanisms and explicit congestion notification (ECN) from routers.
TCP Flow Control Management
- Utilizes a receiver window to manage how much data can be sent before receiving an acknowledgment.
- Adjusts transmission rates based on the receiver's ability to process incoming data without overflowing buffers.
TCP Connection Management
- State management through connections: uses three-way handshake to establish state before data exchange.
- Closing connections requires each party to send a FIN segment followed by an ACK.
TCP Sequence and Acknowledgment Management
- Sequence numbers help track byte streams, allowing orderly and reliable data transfer.
- Acknowledgments confirm receipt of data, and cumulative acknowledgments indicate the next byte expected.
TCP Retransmission Strategies
- Handles lost data segments via timeouts or duplicate acknowledgments to ensure reliability.
- Fast retransmit protocol responds to three duplicate ACKs, indicating potential lost segments.
Congestion Control Techniques
- Employs a mixture of network-assisted and end-to-end approaches with an emphasis on fairness among multiple TCP sessions sharing bandwidth.
- Fairness seeks to equate bandwidth usage among multiple sessions across network resources.
Evolution of Transport Layer Functionality
- Ongoing adaptation to application requirements and network conditions.
- Emphasis on enhancing congestion control mechanisms and reliability protocols to suit modern Internet demands.
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Description
Explore the transport layer's key concepts including services, multiplexing, and protocols like TCP and UDP. This quiz covers principles of reliable data transfer, congestion control, and the evolution of transport-layer functionality in various network settings. Test your understanding of how these protocols enable communication between diverse application processes.
