What Type Of Applications Are Best Suited For Using Udp?

What type of applications are best suited for using UDP?

• It is suitable in that kind of application that is sensitive to delay.
• Those who need authentic delivery mode.
• Those who want that the lost segment must be retransmitted.
• An application which effects due to packet loss.

Answer: User datagram protocol is connection-oriented and in no need for retransmission, the sequence, the flow control process.it gives the normal transport layer function with lower overhead that makes it suitable for that application that is sensitive to the delay of the packets.

TCP/IP protocol has two types: TCP and UDP.UDP is faster and lighter in weight than the TCP, its packets are quick in reaching the destination and the processing speed is fast because they don’t need verification. Most of the application uses it due to its lack of overhead and effective use of bandwidth.

Some of the UDP applications are listed in the following section:

• It is suitable for easy request-response communication because the size of data is less and there is no need t concerned about the error or flow control.
• Multicasting is effective with it because it can support packet switching.
• RIP (Routing information protocol) is efficient due to UDP.
• It is suitable for a real-time application that is sensitive to the delay between the part of the received messages.
• Some of the implementations take the UDP as transport layer protocol which are :

1. NTP (network time protocol)
2. DNS.
3. BOOTP, DHCP.
4. NNP.
5. Quote of the delay protocol.
6. TFTP, RSTP, RIP.

• Some of the application layer work is done with the help of UDP:

1. Traceroute.
2. Record route.

• UDP works fast because it takes the network later datagram to attach the header and then send it toward the user.
• If the checksum field is not present in it then it acts as the null protocol that lessens the needs of computer resources.