A review of multihoming issues using the stream control transmission protocol

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 565-578

  Wallace, T Daniel ^a   Shami, Abdallah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

concurrent multipath transfer; multihoming; SCTP; transport protocols

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; CONCURRENT MULTIPATH TRANSFERS; CROSS-LAYER; HANDOVER MANAGEMENT; IMPROVED RELIABILITY; MULTI-HOMING; MULTIHOMED; MULTIHOMING TECHNIQUES; NETWORK DEVICES; PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY; SCTP; STREAM CONTROL TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS; TRANSPORT LAYERS; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS;

MULTIPATH PROPAGATION;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84860887144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.051111.00096     Document Type: Review

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