Week Three of Computer Coms Discussion Question.
I thought I'd post it here too; because I liked it a bit. Computer Communications and Networking Week 3 Discussion Question 2 The discussion question for this week asks; what is “TCP-Friendly?” what makes an application’s use of TCP more “Friendly” than another? This question is actually a few questions posed as one: Transmission Control Protocol is defined by RFC 793; (Postel et al.) [i] TCP forms the basis for packet based communications at the application layer of the OSI model for the suite of protocols within TCP/IP. TCP allows the encapsulation of data from a given application to be utilized by another remote application in a similar fashion via the encapsulation and un-encapsulation of said data. Transmission control and the study of “wait times” has a lot to do with packet based switched networks; Queuing Theory is the study of storage and wait times and is defined as a subset of math and part of operations research; however the underlying math is often used to ...