Describe the various characteristics of UDP protocol.

The characteristics of the UDP are as follows:

• End to end: UDP is transport protocols that can distinguish between multiple application programs running on a specified computer.
• Connectionless:

A connectionless paradigm is follow by UDP.

• Message Oriented:

An application which uses UDP sends and receives individual messages.

• Best Effort:

UDP gives application similar best effort delivery semantics as IP.

• Arbitrary interaction:

UDP permits an application to send to many other applications, receive from several other applications, or communicate along with exactly one another application.

• Operating system independent:

UDP gives a mean of identifying application programs which does not depend upon Identifiers used through the local operating system.