Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

Transport Protocol Functional Overview
From table 1-1 of [4] on page 12; also appears in [13]
Protocol Feature SCTP TCP UDP
State required at each endpoint Yes Yes No
Reliable data transfer Yes Yes No
Congest control and avoidance Yes Yes No
Message boundary conservation Yes No Yes
Path MTU discovery and message fragmentation Yes Yes No
Message bundling Yes Yes No
Multi-homed hosts support Yes No No
Multi-stream support Yes No No
Unordered data delivery Yes No Yes
Security cookie against SYN flood attack Yes No No
Built-in heartbeat (readability check) Yes No No
Maguire Transport Protocol Functional Overview 6: 41 of 44
maguire@kth.se 2010.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik