Chapter 9. Elementary SCTP Sockets
Introduction
SCTP is a newer transport protocol, standardized in the IETF in 2000 (compared with TCP, which was standardized in 1981). It was first designed to meet the needs of the growing IP telephony market; in particular, transporting telephony signaling across the Internet. The requirements it was designed to fulfill are described in RFC 2719 [Ong et al. 1999]. SCTP is a reliable, message-oriented protocol, providing multiple streams between endpoints and transport-level support for multihoming. Since it is a newer transport protocol, it does not have the same ubiquity as TCP or UDP; however, it provides some new features that may simplify certain application designs. We will discuss the reasons to consider ...
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