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Information Technology:

UDP

Unix

USB

User

UDP

Definition

a protocol that allows computer applications to send messages to other hosts on a network without prior communication

Sentence

Many games use UDP because they value speed over reliability.

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 1104229, 1501756, and 1902474.