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滑动窗口（sliding window） Sliding window protocol Sliding window protocol is a flow control method used by TCP. The protocol allows the sender to send multiple packets continuously before stopping and waiting for confirmation. Because the sender does not have to wait for each packet to wait for confirmation, the protocol can speed up the transmission of data. The sending window is only possible to slide forward only when the receiving window is sliding forward (while also sending confirmation). The windows at both ends of the transceiver continue to slide forward in accordance with the above rules, so this protocol is also called sliding window protocol. When the size of the send window and receive window is equal to 1, it is a stop waiting protocol. When the send window is greater than 1 and the receive window equals 1, the fallback N step protocol is used. When the size of the transmit window and receive window is greater than 1, the retransmission protocol is selected. The protocol specifies that retransmission is necessary for non recognized packets in the window. The maximum number of packets can be equal to the size of the sending window, i.e., the size of the sliding window, n minus 1 (because the sending window cannot be larger than (n-1), or at least the receiving window is greater than or equal to 1). Working principle The TCP protocol in the work, if the sending end of TCP protocol software for each transmission of a data packet, the receiver must wait for confirmation to send the next packet, due to the delay of network transmission, and there will be plenty of time for waiting for confirmation, which lead to low transmission efficiency. To this end, TCP uses a sliding window mechanism for data transmission. The TCP sliding window is used to temporarily store two computers and ask the data packets to be transmitted. Each computer that runs the TCP protocol has two sliding windows: one for data transmission and the other for data reception. The outgoing data q