UDP-Lite
| Communication protocol | |
| Purpose | Multimedia |
|---|---|
| Introduction | |
| Based on | UDP |
| RFC(s) | 3828, 4019, 5097 |
| Internet protocol suite |
|---|
| Application layer |
| Transport layer |
| Internet layer |
| Link layer |
UDP-Lite (Lightweight User Datagram Protocol) is a connectionless protocol that allows a potentially damaged data payload to be delivered to an application rather than being discarded by the receiving station. This is useful as it allows decisions about the integrity of the data to be made in the application layer (application or the codec), where the significance of the bits is understood. UDP-Lite is described in RFC 3828.