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Computer Networks and Internets with
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Chapter 24
User Datagram Protocol
(UDP) Datagram Transport Service
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24.1 Introduction
24.2 The Need For End-To-End Transport Protocols
24.3 The User Datagram Protocol
24.4 The Connectionless Paradigm
24.5 Message-Oriented Interface
24.6 UDP Communication Semantics
24.7 Arbitrary Interaction
24.8 Support For Unicast, Multicast, And Broadcast
24.9 Endpoint Identification With Protocol Port Numbers
24.10 UDP Datagram Format
24.11 The UDP Checksum And The Pseudo Header
24.12 UDP Encapsulation
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24.1 Introduction
This chapter
• considers UDP, a protocol that allows applications to
send and receive datagrams
• discusses the UDP packet format
• explain the ways UDP can be used
• shows that although UDP is efficient and flexible,
– it has the undesirable property of using best-effort delivery
• covers the important concept of protocol port numbers
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24.2 The Need For End-To-End Transport
Protocols
• IP cannot distinguish among multiple application
programs running on the same computer
• Why IP is incapable of supporting multiple applications?
– The source/destination addresses identify a host computer
• The endpoint of a communication is
– known as an “end-to-end protocol” or a “transport protocol”
• TCP / IP protocols chose to place end-to-end protocols
in a separate layer, Layer 4, transport layer
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24.3 The User Datagram Protocol
UDP can be characterized as:
• End-to-end
• Connectionless
• Message-oriented
– An application that uses UDP sends and receives individual
messages
• Best-effort
– offers applications the same best-effort delivery semantics as IP
• Arbitrary interaction
– an application can interact with many other applications
• Operating system (OS) independent
– does not depend on identifiers used by the local OS
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24.4 The Connectionless Paradigm
• An application using UDP does not need to pre-establish
a connection before sending data
• UDP allows an application to delay an arbitrarily long
time between the transmissions
• If two applications stop sending data
– no other packets are exchanged
• UDP does not need/use any control messages
• UDP has extremely low overhead
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24.5 Message-Oriented Interface
• UDP offers a message-oriented interface (MOI)
• UDP does not divide or combine messages
• The MOI has several important consequences:
– UDP can depend on the protocol to preserve data boundaries
– each UDP message must fit into a single IP datagram
– datagram size forms an absolute limit on the size of a UDP
• Message size can cause inefficient use of the network
– For small messages
• datagrams will have a large ratio of header/data
– For large messages
• datagrams will be larger than the network MTU, and will be fragmented
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24.6 UDP Communication Semantics
• UDP provides best-effort delivery like IP, a message can be
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duplicated
delivered out of order
corrupted
• UDP does not detect or correct delivery problems.
• An application must either be immune to the problems
– or take additional steps to detect and correct problems.
• UDP suitable for applications such as voice or video
– applications that can tolerate delivery errors
– but no delays
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24.7 Arbitrary Interaction
UDP allows four styles of interaction:
• 1-to-1
– application exchanges messages with exactly one other apps.
• 1-to-many
– application sends a message to multiple recipients
• many-to-1
– application receives messages from multiple senders
• many-to-many
– a set of applications exchange messages with one another
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24.8 Support For Unicast, Multicast, And
Broadcast
• Transmit the message via IP multicast or broadcast.
– Assuming the underlying network supports broadcast
• IP will send the datagram in a broadcast frame
– UDP allows an application to multicast messages
• Delivery via broadcast or multicast is especially useful
for Ethernet networks
– HW supports both types efficiently
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24.9 Endpoint Identification With Protocol
Port Numbers
• How should UDP identify an application program as an
endpoint? UDP
• Defines an abstract set of identifiers called protocol port
number
– independent of the underlying OS
• Provides a mapping between protocol port numbers and
the program identifiers that the OS uses
• Allows only one application to specify a given pair of
endpoints at any time
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24.10 UDP Datagram Format
• Each message is called a user datagram, has two parts:
– a short header that specifies the sending/receiving applications
– a payload that carries the data being sent
• Figure 24.1 illustrates the user datagram format.
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SOURCE PORT
DESTINATION PORT
MESSAGE LENGTH
CHECKSUM
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24.11 The UDP Checksum And The Pseudo
Header
• CHECKSUM field is optional
– A sender can either choose to compute a checksum
– or make all bits of the checksum field zero
• Destination examines the checksum
– verifies the checksum if the value is nonzero
• UDP extends the checksum
– UDP software includes a pseudo header that contains
• source
• destination
• and type fields
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24.12 UDP Encapsulation
• UDP uses IP for delivery
• Like ICMP, UDP is encapsulated
– in IP datagram and then in a LAN HW frame
• Figure 24.2 illustrates the concept
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