Efficient data transmission with TCP
Explore how TCP handles data transmission efficiently by balancing segment size and delay. Understand Nagle’s Algorithm to reduce small packet overhead and its impact on latency-sensitive applications.
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Segment Transmission Strategies
In a transport protocol such as TCP that offers a byte stream, a practical issue that was left as an implementation choice in RFC 793 was when a new TCP segment should be sent.
There are two simple and extreme implementation choices:
- Send a TCP segment as soon as the application has requested the transmission of some data.