Stream Control Transmission Protocol Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abst...

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) based web agents have has several deficiencies, such as performance degradation, head-of-line blocking, and unsupported mobility when applied to the mobile wireless environment. The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new transport protocol, which provides multistreaming and multi-homing features. Recent SCTP extensions with dynamic address recon...

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new end-to-end transport protocol, which can be used to support the mobility of mobile terminals. This paper describes a framework of SCTP handover and analyzes the handover latency for the single-homing mobile terminals. We then show the experimental results of the SCTP handover in terms of the handover latency and throughput for the two differe...

Firewalls are a crucial building block for securing IP networks. The usage of out-of-band-signaling protocols (such as SIP) for VoIP and multimedia applications requires a dynamic control of these firewalls, which can be implemented using the Simple Middlebox Configuration Protocol (SIMCO). In this paper, we study the performance of SCTP and TCP as transport protocols for the transaction-based ...

The natural transmission routes of the three feline haemotropic mycoplasmas--Mycoplasma haemofelis, 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum', and 'Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis' (CMt)--are largely unknown. Since CMt has been detected in the saliva of infected cats using PCR, we hypothesised that direct transmission via social or aggressive contact may occur. The aim of this study was to evaluate...

Eifel has been proposed as a solution to enhance the performance of TCP during delay spikes in a wireless mobile environment. This paper evaluates and compares the performance of SCTP, TCP, and Eifel during delay spikes. We have shown that although Eifel performs better than TCP Reno and SCTP when there are no packet losses, the opposite is true when packets are lost in the presence of delay sp...

Fourth Generation (4G) of mobile systems is now replacing the 3G and 2G families of standards.Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced network is the continuation of 3GPP-LTE (3GPP: 3rd Generation Partnership Project) and achieved the next step towards high data rate transfers and support of all multimedia functions and requiremensts. One of the main solutions to improve the performance of th...

Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document describes certain security threats to SCTP. It also describes ways to mitigate these threats, in particular by using techniques from the SCTP Specification Errata and Issues memo (RFC 4460). These tech...

Unlike TCP, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) supports IP multihoming at the transport layer. SCTP allows an association to span multiple local and peer IP addresses, and allows the application to dynamically change the primary destination during an active association. We present a problem in the current SCTP (RFC2960) specification that results in unnecessary retransmissions and ...