SCTP multihoming provisioning in converged IP-based multimedia environment

Computer Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1725-1735

  Stegel, Tine ^a   Sterle, Janez ^a   Sedlar, Urban ^a   Bešter, Janez ^a   Kos, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

NAT; NATFW NSLP; Path control; SCTP; Transport layer multihoming

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TECHNOLOGY; BANDWIDTH AGGREGATIONS; END USERS; FAILOVER; FULLY OPERATIONAL; HAND OVER; HETEROGENEOUS ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH RELIABILITY; LAYER PROTOCOLS; LINUX ENVIRONMENT; LINUX KERNEL; MIDDLEBOXES; MULTI-HOMING; MULTIHOMED; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT; MULTISTREAMING; NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATIONS; NETWORK PATHS; NETWORK SERVICES; NOVEL SOLUTIONS; ON DYNAMICS; PATH CONTROL; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; ROUTING TABLE; SERVICE QUALITY; SINGLE POINT; STREAM CONTROL TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS; TEST RESULTS; TRANSPORT LAYER MULTIHOMING; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS; USER TERMINALS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; MACHINE TOOLS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 77955428795     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2010.03.036     Document Type: Article

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