A Survey of mSCTP for Transport Layer Mobility Management

Abstract

Wireless Communications have increased rapidly in recent years. Wireless LAN, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Universal Mobile Tele-Communication System (UMTS), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), Bluetooth, 3G (Third Generation networks), and GPS (Global Positioning System), etc., are common wireless technologies that are commercially available. Internet together with small hosts in the form of laptop, mobile phones, etc., has increased the demand of mobility support for moving nodes as when nodes move from one network to another the Internet connectivity should be maintained during handover. In this paper, various protocols for mobility management have been reviewed. Network layer protocols like Mobile IP and its variants and transport layer protocol mSCTP are compared. Various issues regarding mSCTP handover have been investigated like packet re-ordering, throughput, multi-path transfer, handover in case of fast moving nodes so that optimal handover can be achieved. &nbsp

Improving QoS in mobile multimedia streaming with SCTP-PQ

“…Stewart et al proposed a partial reliable SCTP for QoS adaptation for IPTV over IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Network [38]. The proposed protocol allows users to select the partial reliable service for each stream [17].…”

“…SCTP is the widely accepted transport protocol for IPTV [13,14]. Today, SCTP is used in real-time multimedia standardised streaming applications [15][16][17].…”