What is an important characteristic of UDP?

UDP is much simpler than TCP. UDP does not do any sort of handshaking, connection establishment, or acknowledgements for received packets. UDP packets are simply sent over the network with no expectation of a return message. Since there are no methods for acknowledging that a packet has been received within UDP, there is no guarantee of the order in which packets will arrive. Sometimes, they may be lost all together. UDP is not the most reliable protocol within the IP suite, but it does have several important uses.

Q. Which is an important characteristic of UDP?

Simply answer is A.) · minimal delays in data delivery.

In other Words there are minimal delays in the travel of data from the sender to the receiver.