10 February, 2014.

“You Won’t Believe How Simple the UDP Protocol is. But The Complexity of TCP Will Make You Cry.”

We will continue our discussion of generic reliable protocols, finishing it off with Selective Repeat protocol.

We will then look at the two major transport protocols on the Internet, namely, UDP and TCP in more details.

Please read the following sections in the textbook. Reading:
Chapter 3 of KR.

• 3.3 Connectionless Transport: UDP
• 3.5 Connection-oriented Transport: TCP

Slides: PDF