What are the responsibilities of Transport Layer?

[hpanigra]

What are the responsibilities of Transport Layer?

[kipatra]

The Transport Layer is responsible for source-to-destination delivery of the entire message.
a. Service-point Addressing
b. Segmentation and reassembly
c. Connection Control
d. Flow Control
e. Error Control

[hpanigra]

1. Keeping track of the individual conversations taking place between applications on the source and destinations on the source and destination hosts. 2. Segmenting data and adding a header to identify and manage each segment. 3. Using the header information to reassemble the segments into applications data. 4. Passing the assembled data to the correct applications.