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Everything about Transmission Control Protocol

Principal protocol used to stream data across an IP network

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite, providing reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of octets (bytes) between applications running on hosts communicating via an IP network. It originated in the initial network implementation in which it complemented the Internet Protocol (IP). Therefore, the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Transmission Control ProtocolA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Resilient Control Under Quantization and Denial-of-Service: Codesigning a Deadbeat Controller and Transmission ProtocolInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Computer NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: FMTCP: A Fountain Code-Based Multipath Transmission Control ProtocolCited 118 times
  5. Go sideways: Transport layerA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: User Datagram ProtocolA closely related topic

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🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Historical origin
  2. Network function
  3. TCP segment structure
  4. Protocol operation
  5. Vulnerabilities
  6. TCP ports
  7. Development
  8. Hardware implementations
  9. Wire image and ossification
  10. Performance
  11. Acceleration
  12. Debugging

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

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