The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new general purpose transport protocol defined by the IETF. Originally intended for the transport of voice signaling data (SS7) over IP networks, SCTP together with newly defined extensions is increasingly considered for other application scenarios as well. These require strong security solutions to authenticate the communication partners and...

Congestion and flow control are key mechanisms used to regulate the load in modern packet networks. The new IETF Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) inherited these algorithms from the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Although the principles used are the same, some issues arise from the fact that SCTP operates messageoriented whereas TCP operates byte-stream oriented. SCTP also supp...

Typical transmission control protocol (TCP) based web agents in mobile wireless environment have several deficiencies, such as performance degradation, head-of-line blocking, and unsupported mobility. The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new transport protocol, which provides multi-streaming and multi-homing features. SCTP extensions for dynamic address reconfiguration will supp...

As multimedia applications over the Internet proliferate, the efficient transport of both the signaling and multimedia data becomes increasingly important. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP), the two most widely used but limited transport protocols, are not well suited to contemporary multimedia applications involving digital voice, audio and video communicatio...

Video streaming hot-plug is defined as keeping video streaming to be continuous when a host is switched from wired/wireless to wireless/wired networks, or from one wireless network to another wireless network. In this paper, video streaming hot-plug mechanisms using Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), which is a new transport layer protocol supporting multihoming, are investigated. Usi...

SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a recently standardized transport level protocol with several features that better support the communication requirements of parallel applications; these features are not present in traditional TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). These features make SCTP a good candidate as a transport level protocol for MPI (Message Passing Interface). MPI is a m...

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a relatively recent transport protocol, offering features beyond TCP. Although SCTP is an alternative transport protocol for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), we do not know how SCTP features influence SIP server scalability and performance. To estimate this, we measured the scalability and performance of two servers, an echo server and a ...

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new end-to-end transport protocol that is featured ‘multi-homing.’ The mSCTP (mobile SCTP) is defined as SCTP with the capability of dynamic address reconfiguration. This paper describes a framework of mSCTP handover for supporting vertical handover between heterogeneous IP networks such as WLAN and 3G Cellular systems. We show some experimental ...

The Internet-wide deployment of new protocols such as the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a difficult matter. The employment of SCTP would be beneficial in many cases, but it is a major challenge to enable applications to use the new protocol at both ends, client and server. The prevalence of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which has been established as the dominant tran...

3 Installation 3 3.1 Installation of the SCTP Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1.1 Installation of Kernel SCTP for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1.2 Installation of Userland SCTP SCTPLIB/SOCKETAPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2 Installation of the RSPLIB Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.1 Preparation W...