Describe an application for which UDP is an appropriate tran

Describe an application for which UDP is an appropriate transport layer protocol. Why?

Solution

Answer:-

UDP is a simple, connectionless protocol, described in RFC 768. It has the advantage of providing for low overhead data delivery. The pieces of communication in UDP are called datagrams. These datagrams are sent as \"best effort\" by this Transport layer protocol.

Applications that use UDP include: Domain Name System (DNS), Video Streaming, Voice over IP (VoIP).

It is Appropriate because:-