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connectionless

A communications architecture that does not require the establishment of a session between two nodes before transmission can begin. For example, the transmission of frames within a local area network (LAN), such as Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI, is connectionless. As soon as a frame has been constructed, it is inserted into the network (put on the wire).

In an IP network, the UDP transport protocol, which is used for voice over IP (VoIP) and video calling, is connectionless. Contrast with connection oriented. See UDP.
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UDP is an unreliable and connectionless protocol for medical applications that transmits interactive and real-time data but it is considered to be a good candidate protocol for multimedia streaming and voice transmission over the internet protocol (VoIP).
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These are: encapsulated security payloads (ESP) which are responsible for confidentiality and authentication; authentication headers (AH) that are responsible for providing connectionless integrity and data origin authentication and finally the set of security association tools, these provide for the extra implementations that allow the AH and ESP to properly function.
Authentication schemes in mobile communication systems are initiated during international mobile subscriber identity attach, location registration, location update with serving network change, call setup, activation of connectionless supplementary services and short message services (SMS).
RTP streaming maintains consistent low packet arrival delay due to connectionless nature of the underlying transport method.
This type of routing protocol is table driven and similar to the connectionless protocol of conventional TCP/IP networks.
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