The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new general-purpose transport layer protocol developed by the IETF. Compared with TCP, SCTP has two distinct features: multi-homing and multi-stream. Our work investigates the SCTP performance in various network environments, and its availability for different applications. This paper proposes a SCTP multi-homing scheme as the transport layer...

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...

Having a large number of applications in the marketplace is considered a critical success factor for software ecosystems. The number of applications has been claimed to determine which ecosystems holds the greatest competitive advantage and will eventually dominate the market. This paper investigates the influence of developer multi-homing (i.e., participating in more than one ecosystem) in thr...

Multi-homing at the transport layer is a mechanism that ties one transport layer association to several network interfaces at each communication host, which enabling the two end-nodes to exchange data over several network paths. Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) supports multi-homing feature. We suggest Concurrent Multipath CommunicationSCTP (CMC-SCTP) which uses multi-homing as a bas...

Global adoption of IPv6 requires the provision of a scalable support for multi-homed sites. This article proposes a multi-homing solution based on the usage of the currently available MIPv6 protocol. It is shown that the MIPv6 protocol is suitable to be used for the provision of IPv6 multi-homing support without modifications in the packet formats defined in the specification, and that it only ...

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a general purpose transport protocol featuring multi-homing support, message oriented and more flexible data delivery mechanisms than TCP, and an increased protection against well-known attacks. Originally developed for the transport of Signaling System No. 7 messages, e.g. MTP level 3 user primitives, over IP networks, SCTP has evolved to a ge...

Hundreds of millions of users are attracted to many of the thriving Internet applications and services, such as e-mail, online social networking, or video sharing. In an attempt to effectively serve the large number of users, the application providers started deploying their own application-specific network infrastructures. We demonstrate that the significant proliferation of applications and t...