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TCP: Connection Management, Flow Control, and Congestion Control
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TCP segment structure, three-way handshake and teardown, sliding window/flow control, congestion control (slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit/recovery), and fairness.
Goal
Explain TCP connection lifecycle and state machine; analyze congestion window dynamics under loss; compare Tahoe/Reno-style algorithms and reason about AIMD fairness.
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