Survey of SCTP Improvement over Wired-cum-wireless Hybrid Networks
Junde Song · 2012
Traditional SCTP(Stream Control Transmission Protocol) has limitations when it is used in wired and wireless hybrid network environment because SCTP is designed to be used for transmission in wired networks and there are many problems when it is applied in wired and wireless hybrid network environment.Transmission media carrying data presents a wide range of characteristics in wireless and wired hybrid networks,some of which may cause a degradation of SCTP performance.The author first analyzed the major factors that influence SCTP performance under wired and wireless hybrid network environment,and then concluded the main problems under this hybrid networks.Some research work about whether losses are due to congestion or to radio channel errors,congestion control,and path management and asymmetric paths are carefully analyzed and concluded.Finally,some possible research trends of the development of SCTP over wireless and wired hybrid networks in the future are proposed.