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The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable transport protocol to tackle the limitations of TCP and UDP. SCTP was originally designed to transport PSTN signaling messages over IP networks, but is also capable of serving as a general-purpose transport protocol. SCTP provides attractive features such as multi-streaming and multi-homing that may be helpful in high-mobility environment. SCTP congestion control mechanisms are based upon TCP congestion principals with the exception of the fast recovery algorithm. Original SCTP congestion control can perform badly in high-speed wide area networks because of its slow response with large congestion window. We proposed a new congestion control scheme based on the simple congestion window modification for SCTP to improve its performance in high-speed wide area networks. The results of several experiments we performed proved that our new suggested congestion control scheme for SCTP in high-speed network improved the throughput of the original SCTP congestion control scheme significantly.
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Nagamalai, D., Lee, SH., Lee, WG., Lee, JK. (2005). SCTP over High Speed Wide Area Networks. In: Lorenz, P., Dini, P. (eds) Networking - ICN 2005. ICN 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3420. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31956-6_74
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