Transportlayer

transport layer

tcp/udp

  • end-to-end, broke whole messages to segments
  • connection-oriented service: reliable delivery, error detection, congestion control, flow control
  • connectionless service: best effort delivery

  • mission: Logical connection, between applications running on different hosts
  • Logical communication = as if the applications were directly connected
    • scope: between applications
    • addressing mechanism: multiplex, port numbers bound to an application, 16-bit unsigned number
    • data types: segment
  • responsibilities:
    • multiplex messages/de.. end host run mulitple applications -> addressing
    • break data to segments and re-assembly
      • segmentation, broken into segments
    • connection setup and state management and tear down
    • TCP: reliability guarantee
    • Transport layer adds header with additional information (port numbers, ...)

Children
  1. Tcp
  2. Udp

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