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Understanding the Transport Layer

The Transport Layer is essential in the Internet model, managing data delivery between processes on different computers while acting as a bridge between application-layer protocols and lower-layer services. It involves packetizing messages into smaller units and can operate in connection-oriented or connectionless modes, with TCP being a prominent connection-oriented protocol that ensures reliable data transfer. This layer abstracts the complexities of physical networks for application-layer programs.

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Understanding the Transport Layer

The Transport Layer is essential in the Internet model, managing data delivery between processes on different computers while acting as a bridge between application-layer protocols and lower-layer services. It involves packetizing messages into smaller units and can operate in connection-oriented or connectionless modes, with TCP being a prominent connection-oriented protocol that ensures reliable data transfer. This layer abstracts the complexities of physical networks for application-layer programs.

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MODULE 11 – TRANSPORT LAYER

TRANSPORT LAYER

The TRANSPORT LAYER is the core of the Internet model. Protocols at this layer oversee the
delivery of data from a process, a running application program, on one computer to a process on another
computer. More importantly, they act as a liaison between the application-layer protocols and the services
[provided by the lower layers. The application layer programs interact with each other, using the services
of the transport layer without even being aware of the existence of of the lower layers. To the application
layer program, the physical networks are simply a homogeneous cloud that somehow takes data and delivers
it to its destination safe and sound.

✓ Packetizing – packetizing divides a long message into smaller ones. These smaller unit of message
are encapsulated into the data field of the transport-layer packet and headers are added to it.
✓ Connection Control – transport layer protocols are divided into two categories: connection-
oriented and connectionless.
Connection-Oriented Delivery – a connection-oriented transport layer protocol establishes first a
connection (virtual path) between the sender and receiver, then data are transferred. At the end, the
connection is released. TCP is called a stream connection-oriented and reliable transport protocol.
It adds connection-oriented reliability features to the services of IP.

DR. CARLOS C. SISON, PECE, AE, ACPE 1

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