Differentiate between TCP and UDP

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Characteristics Description	UDP	TCP
Acronym for	User Datagram Protocol or Universal Datagram	Transmission Control Protocol
General Description	Simple High speed low functionality "wrapper" that interface applications to the network layer and does little else	Full-featured protocol that allows applications to send data reliably without worrying about network layer issues.
Protocol connection Setup	Connection less; data is sent without setup	Connection-oriented; Connection must be Established prior to transmission.
Data interface to application	Message base-based is sent in discrete packages by the application.	Stream-based; data is sent by the application with no particular structure
Reliability and Acknowledgements	Unreliable best-effort delivery without acknowledgements	Reliable delivery of message all data is acknowledged.
Retransmissions	Not performed. Application must detect lost data and retransmit if needed.	Delivery of all data is managed, and lost data is retransmitted automatically.
Features Provided to Manage flow of Data	None	Flow control using sliding windows; window size adjustment heuristics; congestion avoidance algorithms
Overhead	Very Low	Low, but higher than UDP
Transmission speed	Very High	High but not as high as UDP
Data. Quantity Suitability	Small to moderate amounts of data.	Small to very large amounts of data.

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