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Table of Contents

SCTP Overview
Limitations of TCP and UDP
Limitations of TCP
Limitations of UDP
SCTP Architecture
SCTP in the IP Stack
Connection Setup in SCTP
SCTP Packet
Congestion Control in SCTP
SCTP Features
Multihoming
Multistreaming
Conservation of Data Boundaries
SCTP Graceful Shutdown Feature
SCTP Support for IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses
SCTP Data Exchange Features
Support for Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
Reporting Packet Drops to an Endpoint
Support for ECN-Nonces in SCTP
SCTP Support for Partially Reliable Data Transmission
Error Handling in SCTP
Retransmission of DATA Chunks
HEARTBEATs to Identify Path Failures
HEARTBEATs to Identify Endpoint Failure
SCTP Security
Cookie Mechanism
Verification Tag

This chapter introduces Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). It also discusses the SCTP architecture, the features that SCTP supports, the security features that SCTP offers, and error handling.

This chapter addresses the following topics:



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