| Type of Application | Requirements | Information |
| Text Messaging | <1 Kbits/s | Non-connected and tolerate high latency |
| | 1 to 100 Kbits/s | Non-connected and tolerate latency |
| Web Browsing | 50 to 100 Kbits/s | Not connected and tolerate latency |
| Audio Streaming | 96 to 160 Kbits/s | Connected constant amount of relatively large bandwidth |
| Voice over IP | 24 to 100 Kbits/s | Connected constant amount of bandwidth |
| Video Streaming | 64 to 200 Kbits/s | Connected high throughput and low latency |
| Peer to Peer | 0 to max throughput | Tolerate any amount of latency, but tend to use up all available throughput |