transmission control protocol
transmission control protocol
in Technology
networking, protocol
(TCP) The most common
transport layer
protocol
used on
Ethernet
and the
Internet
. It was developed by
DARPA
.
TCP is the
connection-oriented
protocol built on top of
Internet Protocol
(IP) and is nearly always seen in the combination
TCP/IP
(TCP over IP). It adds
reliable communication
and flow-control and provides
full-duplex
, process-to-process connections.
TCP is defined in STD 7 and
RFC
793.
User Datagram Protocol
is the other, connectionless, protocol that runs on top of IP.
(2001-06-14)