A lightweight protocol in computer networking is a communication protocol that is characterized by a relatively small overhead (caused e.g. by bulky metadata) in transmitted on top of the functional data:
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Lightweight protocol
A lightweight protocol in computer networking is a communication protocol that is characterized by a relatively small overhead in transmitted on top of the functional data:Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol Lightweight Presentation Protocol Internet Content Adaptation Protocol Skinny Client Control Protocol OpenLDAP