SCTP : Introduction
What is SCTP? SCTP – Stream control transport protocol is a transport layer protocol just like TCP and UDP. The protocol was defined by the IETF Signaling Transport (SIGTRAN) working group in 2000,and...
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Multihoming
What is Multihoming? In the IP terminology, a host is called multi-homed if it can be addressed by multiple IP addresses. Multihoming is used only for recovering from network failures and is not used,...
View ArticleWhy choose SCTP over TCP?
Strict-Ordering : TCP orders the data strictly , which is not required by some of the applications and hence it adds to unwanted delay Stream Oriented nature : The stream oriented nature of TCP is...
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How SCTP association is created?
In order to transfer the data between 2 SCTP hosts, the both should negotiate and create an association.The SCTP user at an endpoint should use the ASSOCIATE primitive to initialize an SCTP association...
View ArticleWhy SCTP is not widely used other than telecom domain?
SCTP is not very much known and not used/deployed a lot because: Widespread: Not widely integrated in TCP/IP stacks (in 2013: still missing natively in latest Mac OSX and Windows) Libraries: Few high...
View ArticleSCTP Multi-Streaming Feature
The term “Stream” in SCTP is derived from the multi-streaming function provided by SCTP. The feature also helps in dividing the data into multiple streams that do not have a limitation to be delivered...
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