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Differentiate between TCP and UDP
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Characteristics Description UDP TCP
Acronym for User Datagram Protocol or Universal Datagram Transmission Control Protocol
General Description Simple High speed low functionality "wrapper" that interface applications to the network layer and does little else Full-featured protocol that allows applications to send data reliably without worrying about network layer issues.
Protocol connection Setup Connection less; data is sent without setup Connection-oriented; Connection must be Established prior to transmission.
Data interface to application Message base-based is sent in discrete packages by the application. Stream-based; data is sent by the application with no particular structure
Reliability and Acknowledgements Unreliable best-effort delivery without acknowledgements Reliable delivery of message all data is acknowledged.
Retransmissions Not performed. Application must detect lost data and retransmit if needed. Delivery of all data is managed, and lost data is retransmitted automatically.
Features Provided to Manage flow of Data None Flow control using sliding windows; window size adjustment heuristics; congestion avoidance algorithms
Overhead Very Low Low, but higher than UDP
Transmission speed Very High High but not as high as UDP
Data. Quantity Suitability Small to moderate amounts of data. Small to very large amounts of data.
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