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Overview of User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is a datagram protocol used for simple request-response transactions. It does not provide reliability, flow control, congestion control, or sequencing. UDP is commonly used for real-time applications like voice and video calling that cannot accept the delay of establishing connections. While messages may be lost or corrupted over UDP, it has advantages of low overhead and minimal resource usage compared to TCP.

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Overview of User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is a datagram protocol used for simple request-response transactions. It does not provide reliability, flow control, congestion control, or sequencing. UDP is commonly used for real-time applications like voice and video calling that cannot accept the delay of establishing connections. While messages may be lost or corrupted over UDP, it has advantages of low overhead and minimal resource usage compared to TCP.

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User

Datagram
Protocol
(UDP)

UDP

User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

Telematics Engineering
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)

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Datagram
Protocol
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Outline

UDP

1 UDP

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Datagram
Protocol
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UDP I
User Datagram Protocol (RFC 768).

UDP

Datagram transfer between processes.


It is considered an extension of IP.
UDP = IP + Mux / Demux.
best effort type:
Unreliable: UDP messages may get lost or corrupted.
No connection-oriented: no establishment or release of
the connection.

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Datagram
Protocol
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UDP

UDP II
Doesnt offer:
Flow Control: The messages can overflow in the
receiver.
Congestion Control: Messages can collapse the
network.
Sequencing: No datagram numbering.
Error Control: no recognition, neither positive nor
negative (but discards).
UDP service is message-oriented:
Delivers the message or not.
If the UDP message is larger than the MTU,
fragmentation is performed at IP level.
Used by many services based on request / response.
Largest UDP message size: 216 1 20 8 = 65,507

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UDP III

UDP

Advantages:
No delay due to connection establishment.
Simple transmitters and receivers.
It uses minimal system resources in terms of memory
and CPU.
Adds a small header (8 bytes).
It does not use any congestion control mechanism.
Data flows can follow time patterns more flexible and
adaptable.

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Datagram
Protocol
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UDP Aplications

UDP

The reliability problems are left to the application layer:

loss, disorder, duplication, delays, etc.


Applications that want to avoid these problems use

TCP.
Some applications do not require reliability in the way

that TCP offers it.


Typical applications:
Real-time voice/video
Request/response DNS.
Multicast Applications (not available in TCP).

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Datagram
Protocol
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UDP Ports

UDP

UDP ports are an independent set to TCP ports.


The port ID is 16 bits length.
The destination port identifies the receiving application.
The source port is optional.
If unused, it is set to zero.
If a reply is required, it is usually dynamically assigned
(ephemeral ports).
Typically above 1024.

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Datagram
Protocol
(UDP)

UDP Datagram

UDP

UDP Length:
Includes header and data (in bytes).
Minimum value is 8, which is the minimum header
length.

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Datagram
Protocol
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UDP

Checksum
UDP checksum:
Optional. If unused, it is set to 0.
Checks the integrity of the header, data, and routing.
Is a Pseudo-header parameter: the receiver can make
sure that no routing errors occurred.
If wrong segment: discarded silently.

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