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'''Micro Transport Protocol''' or '''µTP''' (sometimes also '''uTP''') is an [[open standard|open]] [[User Datagram Protocol|UDP]]-based variant of the [[BitTorrent]] [[peer-to-peer file sharing]] [[Protocol (computing)|protocol]] intended to mitigate poor latency and other [[network congestion#Congestion control|congestion control]] problems found in conventional BitTorrent over [[Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]], while providing reliable, ordered delivery.

It was devised to automatically slow down<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.bittorrent.org/viewtopic.php?pid%3D762#p762 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=November 15, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301125306/http://forum.bittorrent.org/viewtopic.php?pid=762 |archivedate=March 1, 2010 }}</ref> the rate at which packets of data are transmitted between users of [[peer-to-peer]] file sharing [[BitTorrent|torrent]]s when it interferes with other applications. For example, the protocol should automatically allow the sharing of an [[ADSL line]] between a BitTorrent application and a web browser.

==Development==