Connection Oriented Vs Connectionless Service
Connection Oriented Vs Connectionless Service
A Connectionless service is a data communication between two nodes where the sender sends
data without ensuring whether the receiver is available to receive the data. Here, each data packet
has the destination address and is routed independently irrespective of the other packets. Thus the
data packets may follow different paths to reach the destination. There’s no need to setup
connection before sending a message and relinquish it after the message has been sent. The data
2. It enables to broadcast and multicast messages, where the sender sends messages to
multiple recipients.
5. In case of router failures or network congestions, the data packets are routed through
2. Each data packet requires longer data fields since it should hold all the destination address
communicating entities before data communication commences. It is modeled after the telephone
system. To use a connection-oriented service, the user first establishes a connection, uses it and
then releases it. In connection-oriented services, the data streams/packets are delivered to the
receiver in the same order in which they have been sent by the sender.
network resources.
2. The lesser speed of connection due to the time is taken for establishing and relinquishing the
connection.
3. In the case of router failures or network congestions, there are no alternative ways to
continue communication.