Advantages of SCTP
As SCTP is a full duplex connection, it enables the data to be sent and receive simultaneously. The data is delivered in chunks and in a ordered way which are independent to each stream this help in isolating the data from other streams.
Like TCP and unlike UDP the SCTP provides the following advantage
- Flow control: It adjust the data transmission in a particular order and quantity.
- Congestion control: It checks for network prior transmission to prevent the congestion over the links.
- Fault tolerance: It uses the IP address from different internet services providers. So, if in case ISP fails another connection can be used for establishing the connection.
- It is a message oriented rather than byte oriented as of UDP.
- It provides a path selection functionality to select the primary data transmission and a monitoring function to test the connectivity of transmission path.
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a network protocol that is connection-oriented and used for transmitting multiple streams of data simultaneously between any two endpoints that have established a connection in a computer network. SCTP is a transport layer of Internet Protocol (IP).
SCTP support telephone connection over the internet.