Practice Mechanism In Tcp: The Advertised Receive Window (4.4.1.2) - The Transport Layer
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Mechanism in TCP: The Advertised Receive Window

Practice - Mechanism in TCP: The Advertised Receive Window

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Question 1 Easy

What does the Advertised Receive Window indicate?

💡 Hint: Think about how one side communicates its capacity to the other.

Question 2 Easy

What happens when the receiver has no buffer space?

💡 Hint: What type of message indicates the need to pause transmission?

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Question 1

What is the primary function of the Advertised Receive Window?

It indicates the sender's congestion window.
It indicates how much data the sender can send.
It informs about network speed.

💡 Hint: Consider what the receiver communicates to the sender.

Question 2

True or False: The sender can send data if the receiver advertises a Window Size of zero.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about the limits imposed on transmission.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Given a TCP communication between a sender and receiver where the receiver's buffer size starts at 500 bytes and decreases as it processes data. If the sender sends 600 bytes at once, but the receive buffer can only handle 400 bytes at a time, what could happen if the sender is not aware of the receiver's available buffer?

💡 Hint: Consider the sequence of events when buffers are full.

Challenge 2 Hard

How would flow control mechanisms differ if the receiver used a zero-window probe for communication versus completely stopping communication?

💡 Hint: Think about the effects of delayed vs paused communication.

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