Thursday, 28 January 2016

Connection Oriented and Connectionless Services



Connection Oriented and Connectionless Services
These are the two services given by the layers to layers above them. These services are :
  1. Connection Oriented Service
  2. Connectionless Services

Connection Oriented Services
There is a sequence of operation to be followed by the users of connection oriented service. These are :
  1. Connection is established
  2. Information is sent
  3. Connection is released
In connection oriented service we have to establish a connection before starting the communication. When connection is established we send the message or the information and then we release the connection.
Connection oriented service is more reliable than connectionless service. We can send the message in connection oriented service if there is an error at the receivers end. Example of connection oriented is TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) protocol.

Connection Less Services
It is similar to the postal services, as it carries the full address where the message (letter) is to be carried. Each message is routed independently from source to destination. The order of message sent can be different from the order received.
In connectionless the data is transferred in one direction from source to destination without checking that destination is still there or not or if it prepared to accept the message. Authentication is not needed in this. Example of Connectionless service is UDP (User Datagram Protocol) protocol.

Difference between Connection oriented service and Connectionless service

  1. In connection oriented service authentication is needed while connectionless service does not need any authentication.
  2. Connection oriented protocol makes a connection and checks whether message is received or not and sends again if an error occurs connectionless service protocol does not guarantees a delivery.
  3. Connection oriented service is more reliable than connectionless service.
  4. Connection oriented service interface is stream based and connectionless is message based.

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