Describe the various characteristics of UDP protocol.
The characteristics of the UDP are as follows:
- End to end: UDP is transport protocols that can distinguish between multiple application programs running on a specified computer.
- Connectionless:
A connectionless paradigm is follow by UDP.
An application which uses UDP sends and receives individual messages.
UDP gives application similar best effort delivery semantics as IP.
UDP permits an application to send to many other applications, receive from several other applications, or communicate along with exactly one another application.
- Operating system independent:
UDP gives a mean of identifying application programs which does not depend upon Identifiers used through the local operating system.