Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is an Internet standard transport layer protocol. It is connection-oriented and stream-oriented, as opposed to UserDatagramProtocol (UDP).
Most commonly found as the "TCP/IP Protocol Suite" - TransmissionControlProtocol over InternetProtocol. This is a common shorthand which refers to the suite of transport and application protocols which run over IP.
: A tutorial on the TCP/IP protocol suite, focusing particularly on the steps in forwarding an IP datagram from source host to destination host through a router.
A two-bit IP packet header field that allows to reduce the number of TCP retransmissions in the Internet.
: Defines TCP Window Scale option, timestamps, and protection against wrapped sequence numbers (PAWS).
: Defines SACK (a technique to better recover from multiple packet losses per round-trip time interval).
: Best current practices document describing ways to improve TCP performance over satellite links.
Proposed standards and experimental RFCs:
: Proposed standard set of congestion avoidance features in a TCP implementation.
: An experimental RFC that addresses revalidation of TCP congestion window after a period of time when connection wasn't network-limited.
: A standards-track set of changes to TCP that decreases reliance on the retransmission timer.
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