If it uses the UDP protocol to send and receive data, it will use a UDP port. Figure 1, below, is a represenation of an IP address split into its many TCP and UDP ports.

HTTP-over-QUIC is a rewrite of the HTTP protocol that uses Google's QUIC instead of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) as its base technology. QUIC stands for "Quick UDP Internet Connections" and ...

From an OSI model point of view, most data is moved around using the TCP protocol. This is a bit confusing, a protocol within a protocol. BitTorrent itself operates at layer 7, the application layer.

The TCP protocol that nearly all applications use—especially the ones sending a lot of data—has a traffic management system built in that is known as congestion control. The congestion control ...