A taxonomy and survey of SCTP research

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Budzisz, Łukasz ^a   Garcia, Johan ^b   Brunstrom, Anna ^b   Ferrús, Ramon ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Handoff management; Loadsharing; Multi homing; Robustness; SCTP; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; INTEROPERABILITY; SURVEYS;

HANDOFF MANAGEMENT; IP-NETWORK; KEY FEATURE; LOAD SHARING; MULTI-HOMING; ROBUSTNESS; SIGNALING MESSAGES; STREAM CONTROL TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS; TRANSPORT LAYER PROTOCOLS; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 84866499982     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2333112.2333113     Document Type: Review

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