SCTP Extensions for Time Sensitive Traffic

Vitor Basto, Vasco Freitas

Universidade do Minho
Departamento de Informática
P-4710-057 Braga, Portugal

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E-mail: {vbasto,vf} (at) di.uminho.pt


Abstract

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a standard Internet protocol originally designed to transport signalling messages over IP networks. It has been developed and extended to support partially reliable and partially ordered traffic requirements. So far, in-depth unreliable ordered time sensitive traffic performance issues in SCTP have not been addressed. This paper proposes protocol extensions for such traffic and evaluates them by analytical and simulation means.


Fifth Int Network Conference (INC2005), (Univ of the Aegean, Vivodi Telecom, Ericsson), Samos Island, Greece, Jul 5-7, 2005     (Full Paper)