transmission control protocol

2 definitions found

transmission control protocol - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  transmission control protocol
      n 1: a protocol developed for the internet to get data from one
           network device to another; "TCP uses a retransmission
           strategy to insure that data will not be lost in
           transmission" [syn: transmission control protocol, TCP]

transmission control protocol - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Transmission Control Protocol
  TCP
  
     <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)