Copyright © 2001
Qusay H. Mahmoud
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Which transport protocol (TCP v. UDP)
lTCP -- Transmission Control
Protocol
lUDP -- User Datagram
Protocol
lWhat should I use?
–TCP is a reliable protocol, UDP is
not
–TCP is connection-oriented, UDP is connectionless
–TCP incurs overheads, UDP incurs fewer overheads
–UDP has a size limit of 64k, in TCP no limit