Wireless transaction protocol (WTP) is a standard used in
mobile telephony
Mobile telephony is the provision of telephone services to phones which may move around freely rather than stay fixed in one location. Telephony is supposed to specifically point to a voice-only service or connection, though sometimes the li ...
. It is a layer of the Wireless Application Protocol (
WAP)
that is intended to bring
Internet access to
mobile phones. WTP provides functions similar to
TCP
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Computing
* Transmission Control Protocol, a fundamental Internet standard
* Telephony control protocol, a Bluetooth communication s ...
, except that WTP has reduced amount of information needed for each transaction (e.g. does not include a provision for rearranging out-of-order packets).
WTP runs on top of UDP and performs many of the same tasks as TCP but in a way optimized for wireless devices,
which saves processing and memory cost as compared to TCP.
It Supports 3 types of transaction:
# Unreliable One-Way Request
# Reliable One-Way Request
# Reliable Two-Way Request
External links
Open Mobile Alliance
References
Open Mobile Alliance standards
Mobile telecommunications standards
Transport layer protocols
Wireless Application Protocol
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