Abstract
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new end-to-end transport protocol that is featured ‘multi-homing.’ The mSCTP (mobile SCTP) is defined as SCTP with the capability of dynamic address reconfiguration. This paper describes a framework of mSCTP handover for supporting vertical handover between heterogeneous IP networks such as WLAN and 3G Cellular systems. We show some experimental results of the mSCTP vertical handover on Linux platforms. From the experimental results, we see that the handover latency of mSCTP depends on Round Trip Time (RTT) between two SCTP endpoints, possibly with the handover latency of 1 second below.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Perkins, C., et al.: IP Mobility Support for IPv4. IETF RFC 3344 (August 2002)
Johnson, D., et al.: Mobility Support in IPv6. IETF RFC 3775 (June 2004)
Stewart, R., et al.: Stream Control Transmission Protocol. IETF RFC 2960 (October 2000)
Stewart, R., et al.: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration, IETF Internet Draft, draft-ietf-tsvwg-addip-sctp-08.txt (June 2004)
Chang, M., et al.: A transport layer mobility support mechanism. In: Kahng, H.-K., Goto, S. (eds.) ICOIN 2004. LNCS, vol. 3090, pp. 287–296. Springer, Heidelberg (2004)
Chang, M., et al.: Transport Layer Mobility Support Utilizing Link Signal Strength Information. IEICE Transactions on Communications E87-B(9), 2548–2556 (2004)
Network Simulator 2, Available from http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/
ns-2 modules for SCTP, Available from http://www.cis.udel.edu/~iyengar/research/
Linux Kernel Archives, Available from http://www.kernel.org/
Linux Kernel SCTP Project, Available from http://lksctp.sourceforge.net/
Stewart, R., et al.: Sockets API Extensions for Stream Control Transmission Protocol, IETF Internet Draft, draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-09.txt (September 2004)
Ethereal, Available from http://www.ethereal.com/
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Koh, S.J., Kim, S.W. (2005). mSCTP for Vertical Handover Between Heterogeneous Networks. In: Shimojo, S., Ichii, S., Ling, TW., Song, KH. (eds) Web and Communication Technologies and Internet-Related Social Issues - HSI 2005. HSI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3597. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527725_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11527725_4
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-27830-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-31808-8
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)