8.1 Example: The flow of a TCP packet through the Router to the Receiver

1. A valid TCP packet enters the Router, to be forwarded.
2. The Router places it in the queue of the Router part of FCM while it waits to be sent.
3. When the packet is dequeued to be sent, a representation of $p(q)$ is added to the packet by the Router FCM.
4. The packet travels across the low-bandwidth link.
5. The packet (including the representation of $p(q)$) is received by a Receiver.
6. The Receiver part of FCM records the representation of $p(q)$ found in the packet.
7. The packet is processed by existing kernel modules and sent to its destination application/host.