My series of articles on the Unity Networking Landscape in 2023 continues! Today's post will cover the data transmission protocols utilized in real-time multiplayer games.
Greetings everyone! I'm Dmitrii Ivashchenko, a Lead Software Engineer at MY.GAMES. We'll start with a brief overview of what protocols exist at different levels of network interaction.
OSI Levels
The OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model is a conceptual model that characterizes and standardizes the functions of a communication system in terms of abstraction levels. This model was developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1978.