Concurrent multipath transfer using SCTP multihoming over independent end-to-end paths
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Towards transport-layer mobility: Evolution of SCTP multihoming
Computer Communications
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MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
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IEEE Wireless Communications
Exploiting multiuser diversity in reservation random access
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
A taxonomy and survey of SCTP research
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
On UDP continuity over vertical handovers
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Handling mobility at the transport layer is a promising approach to achieve seamless handover in the context of heterogeneous wireless access networks. In particular, features such as multihoming and dynamic address reconfiguration provided by mobile SCTP (mSCTP) protocol are among the key enablers for handover support at the transport layer. This paper investigates the applicability of Concurrent Multipath Transfer (CMT) to distribute data among two end-to-end paths of an mSCTP association during the handover transition process. To that end, the principles of the mSCTP-CMT design are given, emphasizing the consequences of a sender-introduced reordering and its effect on congestion control. The proposed mSCTPCMT handover scheme is benchmarked with two other handover schemes, namely mSCTP and SCTP failover-based. Provided analysis indicates the possible application area of mSCTP-CMT, taking into account not only handover scenario parameters (dwelling time, available bandwidth ratio and round-trip time), but also an important design constraint: receiver buffer (rbuf) size. Rbuf size proves to be a major limiting factor shrinking significantly, yet not excluding mSCTP-CMT's application scope.