Transapp

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Primary duties of the transport layer are to transport and regulate the flow of information from a source to a destination, reliably and accurataly. Control and reliability are accomplished by:

  • Sliding windows
  • Sequencing Numbers
  • Acknowledgements

Protocols in the transport layer segment and reassemble data sent by upper-layer applications into the same transport layer data stream. The transport layer data streams provides end-to-end transport services. The two primary duties of the transport layer are to provide:

  1. Flow control
  2. Reliability
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