An Experimental Study of SCTP in NS2

Abstract

SCTP (Stream Control Transport Protocol) is a reliable transport layer protocol which provides acknowledged, error-free and non-duplicated transfer of message. It combines the advantages of TCP and UDP. In additional to that, SCTP has many attractive characteristics such as multi-homing, multi-streaming and partial data reliability. This paper thoroughly discusses about the advantages of SCTP. We have experimented the SCTP endpoints data transmission by using NS2 (Network Simulator 2) tool including multi-homed SCTP nodes data transmission. The result shows that an SCTP node in NS2 cannot be truly multi-homed. Hence, NS2 still lacks of full implementation of SCTP features.

Improvement of SCTP congestion control in the LTE-A network

“…In this section, we discuss the experiments we conducted using the network simulator ns-2 (ns-2, 2015) to evaluate the performance of the proposed SCTP protocol versus STD-SCTP (UC Berkeley et al, 2011;Chowdhury and Jony, 2014). Specifically, we focus on the simulation setup and results, as well as on comparing the findings with those of the state-of-the art TCP, SCTP, and ENH-SCTP over LTE-A.…”

Improving Throughput in SCTP via Dynamic Optimization of Retransmission Bounds

“…In an interesting paper [17] Chowdbury and Jony shows that an SCTP node in NS2 cannot be truly multi-homed. Hence, NS2 still lacks of full implementation of SCTP features.…”

“…We evaluated the performance of the dynamic RTOmin algorithm against the current "static algorithm" in a variety of real network environments. A driving factor for emphasizing real network performance comes from the observation that approximately 50% of SCTP research is done in simulation with limited use of real world scenarios [23], and the fact that NS2 simulations of SCTP may be lacking in several areas [17].…”