windowing
A technique used by the Internet's Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as a method of controlling the flow of packets between two computers or network hosts. TCP requires that all transmitted data be acknowledged by the receiving host. Sliding windows is a method by which multiple packets of data can be affirmed with a single acknowledgment.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Telecommunications
- Category: Wireless communication
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