SCTP: a proposed standard for robust Internet data transport

Author

Caro, Armando L., Jr. ; Iyengar, Janardhan R. ; Amer, Paul D. ; Ladha, Sourabh ; Heinz, Gerard J., II ; Shah, Keyur C.

Author_Institution

Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA

Volume

36

Issue

11

fYear

2003

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

63

Abstract

The stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) is an evolving general purpose Internet transport protocol designed to bridge the gap between TCP and UDP. SCTP evolved from a telephony signaling protocol for IP networks and is now a proposed standard with the Internet Engineering Task Force. Like TCP, SCTP provides a reliable, full-duplex connection and mechanisms to control network congestion. However, SCTP expands transport layer possibilities beyond TCP and UDP, offering new delivery options that are particularly desirable for telephony signaling and multimedia applications.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; multimedia communication; telephony; transport protocols; IP networks; Internet Engineering Task Force; Internet transport protocol; SCTP; TCP; UDP; full-duplex connection; general purpose transport; multimedia applications; network congestion control; robust Internet data transport; stream control transmission protocol; telephony signaling; telephony signaling protocol; Data security; Force control; IP networks; Internet telephony; Redundancy; Robustness; Streaming media; TCPIP; Transport protocols; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2003.1244536

Filename

1244536