Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Analysis of the increase and decrease algorithms for congestion avoidance in computer networks
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
Dummynet: a simple approach to the evaluation of network protocols
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
An integrated congestion management architecture for Internet hosts
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP): a reference guide
Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP): a reference guide
Addressing the challenges of web data transport
Addressing the challenges of web data transport
Concurrent multipath transfer using SCTP multihoming over independent end-to-end paths
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Modeling and performance evaluation of transport protocols for firewall control
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Multistreamed web transport for developing regions
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Reliable signalling transport in next generation networks
WWIC'08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Wired/wireless internet communications
A path switching scheme for SCTP based on round trip delays
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
Fitting square pegs through round pipes: unordered delivery wire-compatible with TCP and TLS
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
FCP: a flexible transport framework for accommodating diversity
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
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We propose using the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), a recent IETF transport layer protocol, for reliable web transport. Although TCP has traditionally been used, we argue that SCTP better matches the needs of HTTP-based network applications. This position paper discusses SCTP features that address: (i) head-of-line blocking within a single TCP connection, (ii) vulnerability to network failures, and (iii) vulnerability to denial-of-service SYN attacks. We discuss our experience in modifying the Apache server and the Firefox browser to benefit from SCTP, and demonstrate our HTTP over SCTP design via simple experiments. We also discuss the benefits of using SCTP in other web domains through two example scenarios ? multiplexing user requests, and multiplexing resource access. Finally, we highlight several SCTP features that will be valuable to the design and implementation of current HTTP-based client-server applications.