Load Sharing for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Paul D. Amer, Nasıf Ekiz, Preethi Natarajan, Martin Becke, M. Tuexen, Thomas Dreibholz, Randall Stewart, Janardhan R. Iyengar · 2020
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) supports multi-homing for providing network fault tolerance. However, mainly one path is used for data transmission. Only timer-based retransmissions are carried over other paths as well. This document describes how multiple paths can be used simultaneously for transmitting user messages.