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User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

 User Datagram Protocol

 UDP is an unreliable, connectionless protocol for

applications that do not want TCP’s sequencing or flow
control and wish to provide their own.
 It is also widely used for one-shot, client-server-type
request-reply queries and applications in which prompt
delivery is more important than accurate delivery, such
as transmitting speech or video.

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 User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
 RFC0768 is the official specification of UDP
 UDP is a simple, datagram-oriented, transport-
layer protocol that preserves message
boundaries.
 TCP does not make any attempt to preserve
application message boundaries
 It does not provide error correction,
sequencing, duplicate elimination, flow
control, or congestion control.

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 Encapsulation of a UDP datagram in a single IPv4
datagram

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UDP header and payload area

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  Where,
 Source port address: It defines the address of the
application process that has delivered a message. The
source port address is of 16 bits address.
 Destination port address: It defines the address of
the application process that will receive the message.
The destination port address is of a 16-bit address.
 Total length: It defines the total length of the user
datagram in bytes. It is a 16-bit field.
 Checksum: The checksum is a 16-bit field which is
used in error detection.
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 UDP Checksum
 The UDP checksum is the first end-to-end
transport-layer checksum we have encountered
 It covers the UDP header, the UDP data, and a
pseudo-header.
 It is computed at the initial sender and checked
at the final destination.

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 UDP Checksum
 Transport protocols (e.g., TCP, UDP) use
checksums to cover their headers and data. With
UDP, the checksum is optional (although strongly
suggested), while with the others it is mandatory.

 When UDP is used with IPv6, computation and

use of the checksum are mandatory because
there is no header checksum at the IP layer.

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