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Module 4: Transport Layer & Congestion Control

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An application requires reliable, ordered delivery with retransmission of lost data. Which transport protocol is more appropriate?

  • (i) UDP
  • (ii) TCP
  • (iii) ARP
  • (iv) DHCP
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Answer: (ii) TCP

TCP is connection-oriented and provides reliable, in-order delivery using sequence numbers, acknowledgements and retransmission. UDP is unreliable; ARP and DHCP are not transport protocols.

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