Vitor Basto, Vasco Freitas
Universidade do Minho
Departamento de Informática
P-4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Tel.: +351 253 604430
Fax.: +351 253 604471
E-mail: {vbasto,vf} (at) di.uminho.pt
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.