This paper describes an experiment about investigating thedifference in data overhead between TCP and SCTP, when streamingpart of a video over the Internet. The experiment was partly builtupon a previously published work by M. Muhammad and M. Berioli.They concluded that SCTP has more overhead in most casescompared to TCP over a simulated network. The purpose of thispaper...

In this paper, we study the impact of multistreaming on the performance of SCTP over satellite networks. We first show that multistreaming results in higher goodput than single streams when the receiver buffer is constrained as in the case of wireless handheld devices. We then demonstrate that the multistreaming feature of SCTP results in reduced buffer requirements at the receiver in the prese...

This document specifies a mechanism for usage of SCTP (the Stream Control Transmission Protocol) as the transport mechanism between SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) entities. SCTP is a new protocol that provides several features that may prove beneficial for transport between SIP entities that exchange a large amount of messages, including gateways and proxies. As SIP is transport-independent,...

The STCP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a candidate for a new transport layer protocol that may replace the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and the UDP (User Datagram Protocol) protocols in future IP networks. Currently, the SCTP is implemented in, or can be added to, many popular operating systems (Windows, BSD, Linux, HP-UX or Sun Solaris). This paper identifies and presents th...

with developments of real-time applications into data centers, the need for alternatives of the standard TCP protocol has been prime demand in several applications of data centers. The several alternatives of TCP protocol has been proposed but SCTP has edge due to its several well-built characteristics that make it capable to work efficiently. In this paper, we examine the features of SCTP into...

Transport layer mobility management is proposed as an alternative to network layer methods like Mobile IP for realising seamless mobility in the Internet. Mobility management in the transport layer is purely accomplished by use of SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) and some of its currently proposed extensions. With Mobile SCTP seamless hand over even crossing physical, link and networ...

We document a potential flaw in the current SCTP retransmission policy. The current scheme intends to improve the chance of success by exploiting the redundant paths between multihomed endpoints, but we have found that the current SCTP retransmission policy often degrades performance. We comparatively evaluate an alternative retransmission policy and show that the current SCTP retransmission po...

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...

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new transport protocol that is featured multi-streaming and multi-homing. Until now, the two approaches have been considered for IP mobility management: Mobile IP in the network layer and SIP in the application layer scheme. In this paper, we discuss the use of SCTP for IP mobility support in the transport layer. We provide a framework of the...

The new Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) was originally standardised for the transport of signaling messages – originating from the Common Channel Signaling System No.7 (SS7) – over IP based networks. Nonetheless, SCTP is a general purpose IP-based reliable transport protocol which is connection oriented and offers message based data transfer. It supports multiple independent message...