Briefly explain the Flow Control mechanism in Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

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Flow Control is the process of managing the data rate of transmission so that sender doesn't overwhelm receiver.

in above diagram Application A is the sender and application B is the reciever. Both have finite buffer it means that they can store limited amounts of packets in their buffer. So when Application A is transmitting data at the rate higher than the rate at which Application B can process buffer of Application B will be filled eventually and after that any packet send by appliaction A will be lost (As there is no space in buffer to store them).

Flow Control mechanism in TCP: TCP implements flow control by increasing/decreasing window size as required.

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