Throughput Analysis of SCTP over a Multi-homed Association

Author

Islam, Md Nurul ; Kara, A.

Author_Institution

University of Aizu, Japan

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 2006

Firstpage

110

Lastpage

110

Abstract

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is an emerging transport protocol for sending data from one point to another over the Internet. The two major new capabilities that are designed into SCTP are the support for multi-homed hosts and the support for multiple streams in a single SCTP association. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of SCTP, measured in terms of association throughput. We analyze the throughput for two experimental scenarios: 1. Transmission of data chunks with different sizes of payload in network stable state (no packet loss). 2. Transmission of data chunks with different sizes of payload in packet loss environment. We have shown the impact of data chunk transmissions with different sizes of payload on the throughput of a multi-homed SCTP association. Our experimental results and analysis show that SCTP provides better throughput in the case of large payload data chunks transmission in both network stable state and packet loss environment.

Keywords

Computer science; Data communication; Data engineering; Internet; Large-scale systems; Payloads; Propagation losses; Redundancy; Throughput; Transport protocols; Association Throughput.; Data Chunk; Multi-homing; Stream Control Transmission Protocol; Transport Protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology, 2006. CIT '06. The Sixth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2687-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2006.181

Filename

4019917