subject: computer networks

We talked about how at the application development stage, we need to consider which transport protocol to use -- TCP or UDP. Recall that UDP does not provide any reliability, flow control, or congestion control. Which of the following is a TRUE statement about UDP? UDP is a better choice when we can tolerate some lost data. UDP will make adjust its sending rate to try and avoid packets being dropped by the receiver. UDP is faster since it can select the path for the packets to travel. A packet that is using UDP and has the same size as a packet using TCP will travel faster over common links