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Applications, such as TFTP, may add rudimentary reliability mechanisms into the application layer as needed. [6] If an application requires a high degree of reliability, a protocol such as the Transmission Control Protocol may be used instead. Most often, UDP applications do not employ reliability mechanisms and may even be hindered by them.
NORM operates on top of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and ensures reliable communication based upon a negative acknowledgement (NACK), selective Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) mechanism, as opposed to the positive acknowledgement (ACK) approach that the standard Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) uses. In other words, receivers using NORM ...
In computer networking, the Reliable User Datagram Protocol (RUDP) is a transport layer protocol designed at Bell Labs for the Plan 9 operating system.It aims to provide a solution where UDP is too primitive because guaranteed-order packet delivery is desirable, but TCP adds too much complexity/overhead.
Together, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and IP provide a reliable service, whereas User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and IP provide an unreliable one. In the context of distributed protocols, reliability properties specify the guarantees that the protocol provides with respect to the delivery of messages to the intended recipient(s).
The UDP-based Data Transfer Protocol (UDT) project has been a base for the SRT project. [9] The SRT C API is largely based in design on the UDT API [10] SRT was designed for low-latency live video transmission. [9] [3] Haivision released the SRT protocol and reference implementation as open source at the 2017 NAB Show. [9]
Reliability in iWARP is given by the protocol itself, as TCP is reliable. RoCEv2 on the other hand utilizes UDP which has a far smaller overhead and better performance but does not provide inherent reliability, and therefore reliability must be implemented alongside RoCEv2. One solution is to use converged Ethernet switches to make the local ...
SABUL was later renamed to UDT starting with version 2.0, which was released in 2004. UDT2 removed the TCP control connection in SABUL and used UDP for both data and control information. UDT2 also introduced a new congestion control algorithm that allowed the protocol to run "fairly and friendly" with concurrent UDT and TCP flows.
In such applications, old messages quickly become useless, so that getting new messages is preferred to resending lost messages. As of 2017 such applications have often either settled for TCP or used User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and implemented their own congestion-control mechanisms, or have no congestion control at all. While being useful for ...