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What is Transport Protocol

Chapter 86
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
The protocol functionally located at the fourth (transport) layer of the OSI reference model of communication network. It provides end-to-end service (in contrast to chained service of lower layers), connection-oriented or connectionless, reliable or real-time. Internet technologies treat the transport protocol as an interface between a network (usually seen as Internet Protocol, IP) and an application. Applications utilize the functionality of IP via the transport service given by transport protocols.
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TCP and TCP-Friendly Protocols
Agnieszka Chodorek (Kielce University of Technology, Poland)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch086
Abstract
One of the most popular transport protocols—Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)—has a long history. The first document describing TCP protocol in early stages was published in 1974. Since then, TCP specification was changed several times, and finally in 1981 was standardised by RFC 793 (Postel, 1981). Two years later TCP, together with Internet Protocol (IP), became the official protocol suite of the Internet. In the same year the first widely available implementation of TCP in the 4.2 BSD operating system was built.
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Transport Protocol Performance for Multi-Hop Transmission in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
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