The DTServer provides terrain updates by issuing distributed interactive simulation ( DIS ) protocol data units ( PDUs ).
The common architecture specification defines a format of nested protocol data units ( PDUs ), rather similar to UDP / IP.
In practice, MPLS is mainly used to forward IP protocol data units ( PDUs ) and Virtual Private LAN Service ( VPLS ) Ethernet traffic.
However, TCP does not respect message boundaries; it sends data as a sequence of bytes without regard to protocol data units ( PDU ).
All this additional information, plus the original service data unit from the higher layer, constitutes the " protocol data unit " at this layer.
Such modification can be applied to the PDU ( Protocol Data Unit ), to the time relations between the exchanged PDUs, or both ( hybrid methods ).
A new Protocol Data Unit ( PDU ) definition, the DIS PDU was added to the baseline protocol to support the exchange of DIS PDUs for simulated entities.
During encapsulation, each layer builds a protocol data unit ( PDU ) by adding a header ( and sometimes trailer ) containing control information to the PDU from the layer above.
The resulting packet is generally referred to as " LLC Protocol Data Unit ( PDU ) " and the additional information added by the LLC sublayer is the " LLC HEADER ".
The protocol is based on pairs of request / response PDUs ( protocol data units, or packets ) exchanged over TCP is 2775, but multiple arbitrary port numbers are often used in messaging environments.