Connectionless service

The connectionless service is packet-oriented and supports the transfer of datagrams. Datagrams are fully addressed units of data which, from the viewpoint of the transport provider, have no logical relationship to each other.

Connectionless services are of interest to applications which

• only communicate briefly with a partner,

• can be dynamically configured,

• do not require guaranteed delivery of the data in the same order as sent.

Connectionless services are therefore preferably used for short request/reply dialogs as are, for example, typical for transaction systems.