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March 16, 2012
Updated drafts.
March 12, 2012
Added habilitation treatise and talk slides of Dr. Thomas Dreibholz.
February 09, 2012
Fixed link to SCTP code contribution.

February 08, 2012
Added code contribution of the NetPerfMeter application model for the OMNeT++ INET Framework. This code contribution also contains a few improvements of the TCP model.
February 07, 2012
Added code contribution of the improved SCTP model for the OMNeT++ INET Framework.
February 06, 2012
Added ICC 2012 paper.
January 30, 2012
Added NOMS 2012 paper.
January 01, 2012
Happy new year!
December 23, 2011
Added PAMS 2012 paper.
November 16, 2011
Added slides of invited talk at the TU Darmstadt.
Octover 26, 2011
Updated Internet Drafts.
August 26, 2011
Added SoftCOM 2011 paper.
July 20, 2011
Updated Internet Drafts
May 02, 2011
Added ConTEL 2011 paper.
April 10, 2011
Added IEEE Communications Magazine paper.
December 30, 2011
Added ICN 2011 paper on Dummynet/Netem.
December 03, 2010
Linked PAMS 2011 paper.
November 23, 2010
Linked PFLDNeT 2010 paper. Added two more Internet Drafts.
August 15, 2010
Added talk slides of the SIG Multipath Meeting during the 10th EuroView in Würzburg.
August 09, 2010
Interested in research on protocols and applications with multi-homing support? Have a look at the Call for Papers of the 1st International Workshop on Protocols and Applications with Multi-Homing Support (PAMS 2011)!
July 24, 2010
Linked GLOBECOM 2010 paper. Added section for Internet Drafts and RFCs.
April 22, 2010
Upload of AINA 2010 slides.
March 26, 2010
Upload of the technical report Enhancement of the TCP Module in the OMNeT++/INET Framework of the University Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Experimental Mathematics.
March 22, 2010
Upload of research publications, updates of standardisation links.

What is the Stream Control Transmission Protocol?

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) has originally been designed as a protocol to transport Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) signaling messages over IP networks. But the design of SCTP is also capable of supporting further applications.

In October 2000, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published the new SCTP transport protocol as RFC 2960. This RFC has been further updated by RFC 3309 with a CRC-32 checksum. In September 2007, these two RFCs have been replaced by RFC 4960.

SCTP provides a service on the Transport Layer of the TCP/IP reference model, similar to TCP and UDP. A basic function provided by SCTP is the reliable transmission of user messages between two SCTP endpoints. An SCTP connection between two SCTP endpoints is denoted as association. An SCTP association is shown below:

The concept of multi-homing is an important feature of SCTP. It allows endpoints to be reachable under multiple IP addresses. If the endpoints and the IP network are configured that traffic between nodes can be transported with different destination addresses on physically different paths, associations are tolerant of network failures.

SCTP features:

Selective Acknowledgements (SACK)
Flow-Control
Congestion-Control
Multi-Streaming
Multi-Homing
Partial Reliability (PR-SCTP)
Mobility (Dynamic Address Reconfiguration, Add-IP)

SCTP RFCs and Internet Drafts

draft-tuexen-tsvwg-sctp-multipath-04
Load Sharing for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Previous versions: Version 03, Version 02 Version 01, Version 00
draft-dreibholz-tsvwg-sctpsocket-multipath-03
SCTP Socket API Extensions for Concurrent Multipath Transfer
Previous versions: Version 02, Version 01, Version 00
draft-dreibholz-tsvwg-sctpsocket-sqinfo-03
Sender Queue Info Option for the SCTP Socket API
Previous versions: Version 02, Version 01, Version 00

Research

Thomas Dreibholz
Evaluation and Optimisation of Multi-Path Transport using the Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Habilitation Treatise
University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Economcs, Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
March 2012
Thesis BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz
Konzepte für das Future Internet aus der Netzperspektive
Habilitation Talk
University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Economcs, Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
March 2012
Talk BibTeX
Martin Becke, Thomas Dreibholz, Hakim Adhari, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
On the Fairness of Transport Protocols in a Multi-Path Environment
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Ottawa/Canada, June 2012
Paper BibTeX
Martin Becke, Thomas Dreibholz, Hakim Adhari, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
A Future Internet Architecture supporting Multipath Communication Networks
13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS)
Maui, Hawaii/U.S.A., April 2012
Paper BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz, Hakim Adhari, Martin Becke, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
Simulation and Experimental Evaluation of Multipath Congestion Control Strategies
2nd International Workshop on Protocols and Applications with Multi-Homing Support (PAMS)
Fukuoka/Japan, March 2012
Paper BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz, Hakim Adhari, Martin Becke, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
NetPerfMeter -- A Versatile Tool for Multi-Protocol Network Performance Evaluations
OMNeT++ Code Contribution, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Experimental Mathematics
February 2012
Code Contribution Paper netperfmeter-1.0.tar.gz netperfmeter-1.0.patch BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz, Martin Becke, Hakim Adhari, Erwin Paul Rathgeb, Irene Rüngeler, Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tüxen
Improvements to the SCTP Environment in the INET Framework
OMNeT++ Code Contribution, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Experimental Mathematics
February 2012
Code Contribution Paper sctp-2.0.tar.gz sctp-2.0.patch BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz
Multipath-Transfer mit dem Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Invited Talk at the Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt/Germany, November 2011
Slides BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz, Martin Becke, Hakim Adhari, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
Evaluation of A New Multipath Congestion Control Scheme using the NetPerfMeter Tool-Chain
19th IEEE International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM)
Split/Croatia, September 2011
Paper BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz, Martin Becke, Hakim Adhari, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
On the Impact of Congestion Control for Concurrent Multipath Transfer on the Transport Layer
11th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)
Graz/Austria, June 2011
Paper BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz, Irene Rüngeler, Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tüxen, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
Stream Control Transmission Protocol: Past, Current, and Future Standardization Activities
IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume 49, Issue 4, April 2011
Paper BibTeX
Hakim Adhari, Thomas Dreibholz, Martin Becke, Erwin Paul Rathgeb, Michael Tüxen
Evaluation of Concurrent Multipath Transfer over Dissimilar Paths
1st International Workshop on Protocols and Applications with Multi-Homing Support (PAMS)
Singapore, March 2011
Paper BibTeX
Martin Becke, Thomas Dreibholz
Multi-Path Transport
Poster presentation at the 1st DFG/NSF Doctoral Consortium
San Juan/Puerto Rico, March 2011
Poster BibTeX
Martin Becke, Thomas Dreibholz, Erwin Paul Rathgeb, Johannes Formann
Link Emulation on the Data Link Layer in a Linux-based Future Internet Testbed Environment
10th International Conference on Networks (ICN)
St. Maarten/Netherlands Antilles, January 2011
Paper BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz, Martin Becke, Michael Tüxen, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
On the Use of Concurrent Multipath Transfer over Asymmetric Paths
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Miami, Florida/U.S.A., December 2010
Paper BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz
Buffer Splitting for Efficient Transport over Asymmetric Paths
Talk at the SIG Multipath Meeting during the 10th Joint EuroFGI and ITG Workshop on Visions of Future Network Generations (EuroView)
Würzburg/Germany, August 2010
Slides BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz, Robin Seggelmann, Michael Tüxen, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
Transmission Scheduling Optimizations for Concurrent Multipath Transfer
8th International Workshop on Protocols for Future, Large-Scale and Diverse Network Transports (PFLDNeT)
Lancaster, Pennsylvania/U.S.A., November 2010
Paper BibTeX
Thomas Dreibholz, Martin Becke, Jobin Pulinthanath, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
Applying TCP-Friendly Congestion Control to Concurrent Multipath Transfer
24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA)
April 2010
Perth/Australia
Paper BibTeX
Slides
Thomas Dreibholz, Martin Becke, Jobin Pulinthanath, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
Implementation and Evaluation of Concurrent Multipath Transfer for SCTP in the INET Framework
3rd ACM/ICST International Workshop on OMNeT++
Málaga/Spain, March 2010
Paper BibTeX
Thomas Reschka, Thomas Dreibholz, Jobin Pulinthanath, Martin Becke, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
Enhancement of the TCP Module in the OMNeT++/INET Framework
Poster presentation at the 3rd ACM/ICST International Workshop on OMNeT++
Málaga/Spain, March 2010
Poster
Thomas Reschka, Thomas Dreibholz, Jobin Pulinthanath, Martin Becke, Erwin Paul Rathgeb
Enhancement of the TCP Module in the OMNeT++/INET Framework
University Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Experimental Mathematics
Technical Report BibTeX

Standardisation

RFC 2960 - Stream Control Transmission Protocol.

RFC 3257 - Stream Control Transmission Protocol Applicability Statement.

RFC 3286 - An Introduction to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP).

RFC 3309 - Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Checksum Change.

RFC 3436 - Transport Layer Security over Stream Control Transmission Protocol.

RFC 3554 - On the Use of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) with IPsec.

RFC 3758 - Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Partial Reliability Extension.

RFC 3873 - Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Management Information Base (MIB).

RFC 4460 - Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Specification Errata and Issues.

RFC 4820 - Adding Chunk and Parameter for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP).

RFC 4895 - Authenticated Chunks for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP).

RFC 4960 - Stream Control Transmission Protocol.

RFC 5061 - Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration.

RFC 5062 - Security Attacks Found Against the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and Current Countermeasures.

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