Answer
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Work Step by Step
The difference between congestion control and flow control lies in what they regulate and where in the network the regulation occurs:
1. Flow Control
- Purpose: Ensures that a sender does not overwhelm a receiver with data faster than it can process.
- Scope: End-to-end communication between sender and receiver.
- Concern: Receiver’s buffer capacity.
2. Congestion Control
- Purpose: Prevents or alleviates network-wide congestion when the network itself is overloaded.
- Scope: Entire network, not just a single sender-receiver pair.
- Concern: Router/switch queues and link capacity.
