Beginning iOS Game Center and Game Kit: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Reliable Data vs. Unreliable Data

When dealing with network design, packet reliability is an important topic. When discussing packet reliability outside of the iOS platform, we are specifically referring to the priority of the data, the ordering of the packets, and the retry determination factor. Let's look at all these attributes separately and how they relate to network design (see Table 7–1) before we dig into the specifics we need for our implementation when dealing specifically with iOS.

Now that we have covered the issues that are important when dealing with sending the actual data packets from one device to another, we can look at how these ...