Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new transport layer protocol which can be deployed in the Internet along with TCP. In this paper, we investigate the performance issues that arise when SCTP and TCP are used in the same satellite network. We evaluate performance through measurement of throughput, and also fairness of use of networks resources by the two protocols. We observed tha...

We compare the performance of two transport protocols, SCTP and the New-Reno variant of TCP, for file transfers in two FCS networking scenarios. We argue why SCTP is better suited for file transfers in a network prone to resource failures. To measure performance, we implemented FTP over SCTP in a FreeBSD environment. Our results indicate for our tested path configurations, (1) using SCTP as the...

SCTP (Stream Control Transport Protocol) is a reliable transport layer protocol which provides acknowledged, error-free and non-duplicated transfer of message. It combines the advantages of TCP and UDP. In additional to that, SCTP has many attractive characteristics such as multi-homing, multi-streaming and partial data reliability. This paper thoroughly discusses about the advantages of SCTP. ...

Stream Control Transmission Protocol(SCTP) is a reliable transport protocol combining the advantages of TCP and UDP. SCTP has many desirable features including multihoming, multistreaming, and partial data reliability. These features have made SCTP perform much more effectively in multimedia networking applications. They have also worked better in wireless environment which traditional transpor...

Smart Grid Communication network will be a network of networks and with the obvious evolution and acceleration, it is crucial for its success to rely on a solid transmission protocol among its peripherals due to its real time streaming. The SCTP protocol, which was initially designed for transporting signaling messages over IP networks, is now an established in many modern applications. The mai...

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...

PR-SCTP, a partially reliable extension of SCTP, provides a flexible QoS tradeoff between timeliness and reliability for application traffic. However, the performance of PR-SCTP can be affected by certain traffic characteristics and network scenarios. We previously proposed an NR-SACK based optimization for PR-SCTP. In this work we extensively evaluate and analyze the performance of PR-SCTP wit...

Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) is gaining more & more attention as a potential replacement for the aging TCP owing to several powerful features it provides. However, like TCP, much of SCTP work relates to WAN. In this paper, we examine SCTP from the data center perspective. In particular, we evaluate the most mature open source implementation of SCTP for Linux known as LK-SCTP. We ...

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) has recently been standardized as a new transport layer protocol in the IP protocol suite. In addition to the core features of TCP, SCTP incorporates a number of advanced and unique features which are not available in TCP. The objective of this paper is to investigate the suitability of SCTP for data communications over satellite links. We describ...

This paper proposes a new extension for the SCTP pro­ tocol which aims at improving the transport performance in wire­ less environments. This extension is named QoS_Measurement_chunk. It relies a) on a cross-layer mechanism taking place between SCTP and the link layer and b) on a new SCTP control chunk. Network can be informed of variations of link layer transmission conditions via control QoS...