Which of the following statements regarding a TCP sliding window are false?

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The sender advertises the size of the initial window.

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If the sender does not receive an acknowledgment message after the retransmission timer times out, it retransmits the unacknowledged data.

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The sender does not need to transmit packets with a complete window size.

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The sliding window size can only be increased or remains unchanged.

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A TCP sliding window allows the sender to send multiple data packets before receiving an acknowledgment message.

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