Reliability (telecommunications)
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With regard to telecommunications, reliability means that messages are transmitted with a desired Quality of Service (QoS). Examples of QoS for messaging are:
- all sent data arrive in full
- the data arrives in the correct order
- there are no duplicates
In order to realize this, u. a. Sequence numbers used along with receipts (acknowledgments of receipt) and retransmissions .
An example of a reliable protocol is TCP ; an example of an unreliable protocol is UDP .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Web Services Reliability FAQ. Sun, accessed December 19, 2010 .
- ↑ Comparative analysis - TCP - UDP. (No longer available online.) Lay Networks, archived from the original on December 16, 2010 ; Retrieved December 19, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
