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Transport Layer 3 - TCP & Congestion Control

Learning Goals

After this week, you will understand the following concepts

  • TCP States
  • Congestion control
  • Receive window
  • Fairness
  • connectionless and connection-oriented protocols

Preparations for week #9 RAT 07

To know more about networking, we will be using the book Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach, 8th edition.

Mandatory Readings

- 279-285 (Sec. 3.5.6)
- 293-309 (3.7, TCP splitting can be skipped)

Optional materials (but recommended):

- 285-293 (Seq. 3.6, 3.6.1)
- 309-312 (3.8)

Videos

TCP Reliability, Flow Control, and Congestion Control (part 2/2)

Principles of Congestion Control

TCP Congestion Control

Evolution of Transport-layer Functionality

Self-checks