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The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a transportprotocol that provides connection-oriented, reliable,end-to-end byte-streams as a service to the application layer.For many applications, it is very inconvenient that TCP usesbyte streams rather than packets.

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Explain what the statement TCP provides a byte-stream service means

What does the byte-stream service mean forapplications that use socket functions (Berkeleysockets) such as send() and recv() to exchangedata? What must programmers do differently when they use TCP instead of a transport protocol that provides a packet-based service?

If an application uses TCP but needs packets, how must the developer design the application-layer protocol?

Would it be easy to create a new transport protocol PacketTP with small changes to TCP that delivers a connection-orien