SCTP vs. TCP Delay and Packet Loss

Author

Afzal, Muhammad Khali ; Ullah-Khan, Amman ; Pescape, Antonio ; Zikria, Yousaf Bin ; Loreto, Salvatore

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., CIIT, Wah Cantt

fYear

2007

fDate

28-30 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) is a new transport layer protocol, proposed by IETF in RFC 4960. In this paper we have done a simulation-based comparison of important quality of service parameter delay and the impact of packet loss on the throughput using SCTP and TCP Sack as a transport protocol in network simulator (ns-2) in wired network. Our result shows that SCTP and TCP Sack show similar behavior in term of delay in single flow and competing traffic while SCTP achieves higher throughput than TCP when different loss probability is induced in the network.

Keywords

quality of service; transport protocols; IETF; RFC 4960; SCTP; TCP Sack; ns-2 network simulator; packet loss; quality of service; stream control transmission protocol; transport layer protocol; Computer science; Delay; Internet; Propagation losses; Quality of service; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Traffic control; Transport protocols; Ack; Cwnd; Rwnd; SCTP; TCP SACK;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multitopic Conference, 2007. INMIC 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Lahore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1552-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1553-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INMIC.2007.4557683

Filename

4557683