UDP
Now let’s look at the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Using UDP, machines on the Internet can send each other short messages called datagrams. UDP datagrams are unreliable. This means if a client sends a sequence of UDP datagrams to a server, then the datagrams might arrive out of order, not at all, or even more than once, but the individual datagrams, if they arrive, will be undamaged. Large datagrams can get split into smaller fragments, but the IP protocol will reassemble the fragments before delivering them to the application.
UDP is a connectionless protocol, which means the client does not have to establish a connection to the server before sending it a message. This means that UDP is well suited for applications where large numbers ...
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