UDP is the Internet's connectionless communication protocol. UDP provides a best-effort delivery of datagrams from a client process to a server process. It provides no reliability guarantees, nor does it have flow or congestion control. It however has no connection overhead so it can be more efficient for time-sensitive applications that can tolerate some data loss.

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