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Experiment-6

Aim: Socket programming using UDP and TCP (e.g., simple DNS, data & time client/server, echo
client/server, iterative & concurrent servers)

Basics:

1. Hostname and port: are used to specify transport endpoints.

2. Socket: the communication object.

3. TCP properties: reliable, connection-oriented, byte-stream, connection established before

application-level protocols exchange information, two-way communication.

4. UDP properties: unreliable, packet-switched, packet data, no connection overhead, application-

level protocols exchange information immediately, two-way communication.

A socket connection is a 4-tuple -- (Host A, Port A, Host B, Port B) -- uniquely defining the connection.

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TCP client/server communication flow

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TCP Server communication model(UDP figure):

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Socket programming boils down to two systems communicating with one another. Generally, network
communication comes in two flavors: Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol
(UDP). TCP and UDP are used for different purposes and both have unique constraints.

 TCP is relatively simple and reliable protocol that enables a client to make a connection to a
server and the two systems to communicate. In TCP, each entity knows that its communication
payloads have been received.

 UDP is a connectionless protocol and is good for scenarios where you do not necessarily
need every packet to arrive at its destination, such as media streaming.

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