meaning of connectionless protocol

1. connectionless protocol The data communication method in which communication occurs between hosts with no previous setup. Packets sent between two hosts may take different routes. UDP is a connectionless protocol. Also called packet switching. Contrast circuit switching, connection-oriented. Connection Machine LISP Lisp with a parallel data structure, the xapping, an array of values assigned to an array of sites. [G. L. Steele et al, "Connection Machine LISP: Fine-Grained Parallel Symbolic Processing", in Proc 1986 ACM Conf on LISP and Functional Prog, Aug 1986, pp. 279-297]. ["Connection Machine LISP Reference Manual", Thinking Machines Corp, Feb 1987].

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