User Datagram Protocol

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User Datagram Protocol is one of the transport layer protocol which offers limited amount of service when messages are exchanged between hosts. Data is further subdivided into data grams for transmission across the hosts. UDP does not allow retransmission of the damaged or lost packets and there is no acknowledgement for the packet which has been sent. DGRAM_SOCK is the type of socket used for transmission of data. Unlike TCP, however, UDP does not provide the service of dividing a message into packets (datagram's) and reassembling it at the other end. Specifically, UDP doesn't provide sequencing of the packets that the data arrives in. This means that the application program that uses UDP must be able to make sure that the entire message has arrived and is in the right order. Network applications that want to save processing time because they have very small data units to exchange (and therefore very little message reassembling to do) may prefer UDP to TCP. The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) uses UDP instead of TCP. First, one of the attractive features of UDP is that since it does not need to retransmit lost packets nor does it do any connection setup, sending data incurs less delay. This lower delay makes UDP an appealing choice for delay-sensitive applications like audio and video. Second, multicast applications are built on top of UDP since they have to do point to multipoint. Using TCP for multicast applications would be hard since now the sender would have to keep track of retransmissions or sending rate for multiple receivers. Various flow control schemes have been adopted widely to enhance native UDP for achieving an optimum performance. Some schemes exhibit high overhead logic. Hence an efficient method is propos... ... middle of paper ... ...issue over UDP and its influence on SIP session performance are respectively determined, investigated and analyzed. REFERENCES [1] Ahmed Osama Fathy Atya and Jilong Kuang. "RUFC: A flexible framework for reliable UDP with flowcontrol." The 8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST), December 2013. [2] Heru Pranoto and Ardian Ulvan. "Retransmission issue of SIP session over UDP transport protocol in IP Multimedia Subsystem - IMS." The 3rd International Conference on Instrumentation, Communications, Information Technology, and Biomedical Engineering (ICICI-BME), November 2013. [3] Umme Gousia, Dr. Mohd Abdul Waheed and Syed Shah Md Saifullah Hussaini. "A Dynamic Performance-Based Flow Control Method for High Speed Data Transfer." IJCSN International Journal of Computer Science and Network, Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2013.

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