SCTP Reference Guide for Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Author: Randall R. Stewart
Publisher: Tsinghua University Press
Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol), the next-generation general-purpose IP transmission protocol, has been standardized by the IETF as RFC2960. Those familiar with TCP/IP can simply view SCTP as "super TCP," as it not only resembles TCP but also extends many of its functions. SCTP is a key component for establishing next-generation high-quality communication and e-commerce applications over IP, and is considered by some standardization organizations to be the successor to TCP. SCTP's two main extensions over TCP and UDP are support for multi-address hosts and support for multiple streams within a single SCTP association. Multi-address host support allows an SCTP association to utilize multiple paths, achieving path redundancy. Multi-stream support enables users to define substreams, messages