TCP is the Internet's connection-oriented communication protocol. TCP provides a reliable, in-order, transmission of a byte-stream from a client process to a server process. It also provides features for flow and congestion control. It has a connection overhead (when created a TCP connection requires some handshaking, and when closed-down further handshaking is required). Reliable data transfer is achieved by a system of acknowledgements which add a further overhead.

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