The Transmission Control Protocol

For over three decades, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has been the de-facto transport protocol for a countless number of network applications. So popular is the protocol that according to prior studies, TCP accounts for almost 90 % of the byte count in the Internet. TCP’s robustness in a wide variety of networking environments is one of the primary reasons for its large scale deployment. In this chapter we provide an overview of the TCP along with brief description of its internal mechanisms like reliable delivery and congestion control that that are key to our understanding of the Incast phenomena.

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA Santosh Kulkarni
  2. Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA Prathima Agrawal
  1. Santosh Kulkarni