Improving network performance by enabling explicit congestion notification (ECN) in SCTP control chunks

• Main Authors: Mohamad Tahir, Hatim, Md Said, Abas, Elhalabi, Mohammed J. M., Puteh, Nurnasran, Othman, Azliza, Muhd Zain, Nurzaid, Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi, Ismail, Muhammad Hafiz, Mohd Zaini, Khuzairi, Hussin, Mohd Zabidin
• Other Authors: Snasel, Vaclav
• Format: Book Section
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/20183/; http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22389-1_26
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

The need for a reliable transmission protocol that can cover the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) has prompted the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to define a new protocol called the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP).This paper proposes adding Explic...