What is the purpose of the window size field? Which of the statements hold for all situations?

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To control the transmitter data rate

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To indicate to the receiver of the segment how many data octets the sender is willing to accept, beyond the ones acknowledged in the acknowledged number field

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It denotes the congestions window size, i.e. indicates the load the network as a whole can handle

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To indicate to the receiver of the segment the number of data octets the sender of the segment can handle

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