TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) are networking protocols used to transfer data over the internet. Koishigawa explains that “Generally speaking, the internet is a network of connecting devices. Each device, whether its your smartphone or a server, communicate through the internet protocol suite. The internet protocol suite is a collection of different protocols, or methods, for devices to communicate with each other. Both TCP and UDP are major protocols within the internet protocol suite;’ (Koishigawa, 2021). So what is the difference between TCP and UDP?
