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URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt
Stream Control Transmission Protocol is designed to
transport PSTN signaling messages over IP networks, but is capable of broader
applications. SCTP is a reliable transport protocol operating on top of a
connectionless packet network such as IP. It offers the following services to
its users: (1) acknowledged error-free non-duplicated transfer of user data,
(2) data fragmentation to conform to discovered path MTU size, (3) sequenced
delivery of user messages within multiple streams, (4) with an option for
order-of-arrival delivery of individual user messages, (5) optional bundling of
multiple user messages into a single SCTP packet, and most importantly (6)
support network-level fault tolerance through supporting of multi-homing at
either or both ends of an association. The design of SCTP includes appropriate
congestion avoidance behavior and resistance to flooding and masquerade
attacks.
Keywords:
Internet, datagram, Transport, Protocol
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