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Flow control in transport layer

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Flow control in transport layer

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Flow control in transport layer ensures the delivery of the message globally, as

the two points of connection over this protocol are logically connected.
Whereas in data-link layer, the concern is to deliver message locally, as the two
points of connection over this protocol are physically connected.
Now, coming upon the algorithms that control flow of a network:
1.Stop and Wait - This flow control mechanism forces the sender after
transmitting a data frame to stop and wait until the acknowledgement of the

data-frame sent is received.


2.Sliding Window - In this flow control mechanism, both sender and receiver
agree on the number of data-frames after which the acknowledgement should
be sent. As we learnt, stop and wait flow control mechanism wastes resources,
this protocol tries to make use of underlying resources as much as
possible.

These are the 2 basic algorithms for flow control, whereas others are used for error
control mechanism.
TCP uses the sliding window protocol for flow control, the size of which is dependent
upon the bandwidth, RTT and errors in packets.

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