User Datagram Protocol
PRINCIPAL PROTOCOL USED FOR TRANSMISSION OF DATAGRAMS ACROSS AN IP NETWORK
User datagram protocol; UDP/IP; Unreliable Datagram Protocol; UDP packet; Service port; Service ports; IPv6 pseudo header; IPv4 pseudo header; Universal Datagram Protocol; UDP protocol
In computer networking, the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core communication protocols of the Internet protocol suite used to send messages (transported as datagrams in packets) to other hosts on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Within an IP network, UDP does not require prior communication to set up communication channels or data paths.