Implementation of CMT-SCTP in real internet lab setup

In this study we implement CMT-SCTP (Concurrent Multipath Transfer extension of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol) in a real lab Internet setup. SCTP is an innovative transport layer protocol, which is reliable and provides services such as multihoming and multistreaming. CMT extension allows simultaneous utilization of multipaths for reaching the higher data transmission rate between two hosts, which is beneficial for the emerging multi-interface devices. The literature on CMT-SCTP optimization shows that, there are several simulation tools used by the researchers for performance evaluation, to validate propositions and to experiment the further extensions of SCTP/CMT-SCTP. Indeed, such tools are convenient and can quickly verify the proposal results. We establish a real lab Internet setup first and then design a number of test scenarios for CMT-SCTP. To verify our implementation the simulations needs to be performed on the test scenarios to set a reference output prior to the lab setup experiments. The experiment results from the successful implementation of CMT-SCTP on the real lab setup agrees to the reference output reasonably.