Stream Control Protocol Transmission

SCTP , or Stream Control Transmission Protocol is a Protocole defined in 2000 by IETF. The protocol is defined in RFC 4960, and a text of introduction is provided in the RFC 3286.

As a protocol of transport, SCTP is equivalent in a certain direction to TCP or UDP. Indeed, it provides similar services to TCP, ensuring reliability, the resequencing of the sequences, and congestion controls it. Whereas TCP is byte-oriented (directed bytes), SCTP manages “frames” (short sequences).

An major advance of SCTP is the possibility of multi-target communications, where one of the ends (or they) of connection consists of several IP addresses.

For the origin, SCTP was intended for the transport of telephone protocols on the network IP for the signaling (ISDN To use Share, SMS, prepaid…) and to a lesser extent ((VoIP).

External bonds

RFC 4960 Stream Control Transmission Protocol
RFC 3286 Year Introduction to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol
RFC 3257 Stream Control Transmission Protocol Applicability Statement
RFC 3309 Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Checksum Changes

http://www.sigtran.org
http://www.sctp.org
http://www.openss7.org
http://www.sctp.de
The Linux Kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol (lksctp) project

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