Analyze and Evaluate the performance of SCTP at transport layer

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is first designed by IETF as a reliable transport protocol to transport SS7 signaling messages over IP networks. But its advanced features which are not provided by TCP or UDP show that SCTP is able to support a wider range of applications than just for signaling transport. As with TCP, SCTP is a reliable transmission protocol with congestion control and flow control, it is also a connection-oriented protocol with selective acknowledgement. Besides, it is a protocol which improves overall protocol security with four-way handshake association establishment to reduce vulnerability to DOS attacks; it provides framing mechanism and unordered service as UDP to preserve message boundaries; it also provides heartbeat mechanism to keep track of endpoint status and reach ability to detect network error more quickly; especially it is also a multi-homing protocol to improve robustness to failure, its multi-streaming feature or also called partial ordering can provide higher data rate, reduce delay by eliminating the Head-Of-Line blocking problem at the receiver in TCP. We analysis advanced features and prove the capability of SCTP to show that it can replace TCP/UDP through testbeds. Our paper "Analyze and evaluate the performance of SCTP at transport layer" is divided into the following main parts: The first part present "Introduction". The second part present "Background of SCTP". The third part present "Simulation". The fourth part is "Conclusion".