Flow control prevents a fast sender from overwhelming a slow receiver: the Window field in every ACK tells how much buffer space remains. Congestion control (slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit) is separate — it reacts to network loss, not just receiver buffers.
Sliding window idea
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Send
Bytes in flight ≤ min(cwnd, rwnd)
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ACK
Advances left edge of window
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rwnd
Receiver window in header
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Zero window
Probe with window updates
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