The User
Datagram Protocol
(UDP)
is one of the core members of the Internet protocol suite, the set of network
protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send
messages, in this case referred to as datagrams,
to other hosts on an Internet Protocol (IP) network without prior communications
to set up special transmission channels or data paths. The protocol was designed
by David P. Reed in 1980 and formally defined in RFC 768.
UDP uses a simple transmission model with a minimum of protocol mechanism.It has no handshaking dialogues, and thus exposes any unreliability of the underlying network protocol to the user's program. As this is normally IP over unreliable media, there is no guarantee of delivery, ordering or duplicate protection. UDP provides checksums for data integrity, and port numbers for addressing different functions at the source and destination of the datagram.
UDP is suitable for purposes where error checking and correction is either not necessary or performed in the application, avoiding the overhead of such processing at the network interface level. Time-sensitive applications often use UDP because dropping packets is preferable to waiting for delayed packets, which may not be an option in a real-time system.IIf error correction facilities are needed at the network interface level, an application may use the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or Stream Control Transmission Protocol(SCTP) which are designed for this purpose.
UDP uses a simple transmission model with a minimum of protocol mechanism.It has no handshaking dialogues, and thus exposes any unreliability of the underlying network protocol to the user's program. As this is normally IP over unreliable media, there is no guarantee of delivery, ordering or duplicate protection. UDP provides checksums for data integrity, and port numbers for addressing different functions at the source and destination of the datagram.
UDP is suitable for purposes where error checking and correction is either not necessary or performed in the application, avoiding the overhead of such processing at the network interface level. Time-sensitive applications often use UDP because dropping packets is preferable to waiting for delayed packets, which may not be an option in a real-time system.IIf error correction facilities are needed at the network interface level, an application may use the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or Stream Control Transmission Protocol(SCTP) which are designed for this purpose.
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