What is Packet Loss?

Packet loss refers to the fact that the data of one or more data packets cannot reach the destination through the Internet.

Packet loss refers to the fact that the data of one or more data packets cannot reach the destination through the Internet. Packet loss and bit error and

There may be many reasons for packet loss, including signal degradation due to multi-path fading on the network, or packet drop due to channel congestion, or damage. Corrupted packets have been rejected, or the Internet is defective

Packet loss may cause streaming media technology,

Some network transport protocols, such as TCP, provide reliable packet delivery. When a packet loss occurs, the receiver can ask the sender to retransmit or resend automatically. TCP can undo packet loss, but frequent retransmissions of lost packets can cause network throughput to drop.

The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) protocol itself does not provide for the recovery of lost data packets. Therefore, application software using UDP needs to define its own mechanism to deal with packet loss.