Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is the third transport layer protocol next to TCP and UDP. The SCTP provides some distinctive features over the TCP. This paper is purposed to compare SCTP and TCP in the performance perspective. We compare the throughput of SCTP and TCP for the three different test scenarios: the performance comparison of SCTP and TCP for the different size of the us...

Multipath transport protocols, which transmit data over multiple distinct paths in an end-to-end connection are introduced. However, they have a problem in terms of fairness. When the transmissions along several paths share the same bottleneck link, the multipath connection receives higher throughput than a competing regular TCP flow, because it executes congestion control per path with the sam...

Multi-hop technologies are recently gaining momentum due to its integration with wireless internet, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), a consistent self-clocking transport protocol plays a decisive role in an Internet's performance as it carries huge quantum of internet data traffic globally. TCP's performance over multi-hop wireless networks remains a challenging concern because of its chara...

We propose a robust end-to-end loss differentiation scheme to identify the packet losses due to congestion for TCP connections over wired/wireless networks. We use the measured RTT values in determining whether the cause of packet loss is due to congestion over wired path or regular bit errors over wireless paths. The classification should be as accurate as possible to achieve high throughput a...

Congestion and flow control is an integral part of any Internet data transport protocol. It is widely accepted that the congestion avoidance mechanisms of TCP have been one of the key contributors to the success of the Internet. However, TCP is ill-suited to real-time multimedia streaming applications. Its bursty transmission, and abrupt and frequent wide rate fluctuations cause high delay jitt...

In this paper, we propose a novel technique to deal with sudden bandwidth changes in transmission control protocol (TCP). In the current Internet, sudden bandwidth changes may occur because of vertical handovers between heterogeneous access networks, routing path changes, cognitive ratio, and multi-rate wireless local area network. The current implementation of TCP is designed and optimized for...

Wide area mobile networks facilitate TCP/IP with radio link protocols (RLP) in order to achieve acceptable throughput. Varying channel properties, roaming etc. which interfere with the TCP retransmission and congestion control mechanisms can be alleviated by split connection techniques and performance enhancing proxies (PEP). However, current split connection techniques and PEP do not sufficien...

Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) is a new transport protocol that enables systems to exploit available paths through multiple network interfaces. MPTCP is particularly useful for mobile devices, which usually have multiple wireless interfaces. However, these devices have limited power capacity and thus judicious use of these interfaces is required. In this work, we develop a model for MPTCP energy consum...