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Fault Tolerance
Table 2.1 Compare and contrast SCTP, TCP, and UDP
Services / Features SCTP TCP UDP
Connection-oriented yes yes no
Full duplex yes yes yes
Reliabledatatransfer yes yes no
Partial-reliable data transfer optional no no
Flow control yes yes no
TCP-friendly congestion control yes yes no
ECN capable yes yes no
Ordered data delivery yes yes no
Unordered data delivery yes no yes
Uses selective ACKs yes optional no
Preservation of Application PDU yes no yes
Boundaries
Application PDU fragmentation yes yes no
Application PDU bundling yes yes no
Path MTU discovery yes yes no
Multistreaming yes no no
Multihoming yes