Improving the Communication Functionality of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) For Real Time Messaging and Application Processing

Abstract

Communication is an essential part of human existence which enables us reach friends and relatives at distant
or different geographical locations and boundaries. This communication is however based on certain rules and
procedures without which communication would be unsuccessful. Protocol defines a set of rules that enables
communication with 99.99 efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore one protocol that enables real time
communication between devices and computers is the User Datagram protocol located in the transport section
of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model. On other hand, UDP has not performed well in the transport
of short messages between devices especially when same messages are sent to different devices and ports
through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and sockets that enable programmers to harness the full
power of transport protocol. Therefore this paper seeks to identify the various limitations of the UDP and
proposes a new UDP protocol known as UDP-RT, and that is User Datagram Protocol for Real Time
communication. This protocol is an extension of UDP that is robust and has the capacity to manage and
control message communication in real time that ensures the best delivery and security at all times and also
proposes reliable protocol UDP over UDP protocol layer that gains one millisecond average round trip time
(RTT)