The communication of Future Combat Systems (FCS), with rigid timing and reliability requirements, has posed
a great challenge for the existing popular transport layer protocols such as TCP and UDP. The Stream Control
Transmission Protocol (SCTP), first designed to transmit telephony signaling messages over Internet, is a promising
transport layer candidate for FCS networks. The new SCTP features such as multi-homing, multi-streaming,
and enhanced security can significantly improve the performance of FCS applications. In this paper, we propose
modifications to the congestion control and multi-streaming parts of current SCTP specifications to allow the
support of QoS for FCS applications. Multiple streams in an SCTP association provide an aggregation mechanism
to accommodate heterogeneous objects, which belong to the same application but may require different
types of QoS from the network. However, the current SCTP specification lacks an internal mechanism to support
the preferential treatment among its streams. Our work introduces the concept of grouping SCTP streams into
subflows based on their required QoS. We propose to modify the current SCTP to implement subflows (named
SF-SCTP), each with its own flow and congestion mechanism to prevent the so-called false sharing problem.
To improve the fairness of SF-SCTP towards the original SCTP, we integrate Fractional Congestion Control
into the design. The throughput performance evaluation of SF-SCTP is studied through ns-2 experiments in a
simplified Diff-Serv network. The simulation results prove the SF-SCTP's capability to support QoS among its
streams, confirm the accuracy of the analytic models, and justify our effects to integrate FCC into SF-SCTP
since it improves the fairness between SF-SCTP and the original SCTP.
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), a general-purpose
transport layer protocol standardized by the IETF, has been a promising
candidate to join UDP and TCP as a core protocol. The new SCTP features
such as multi-homing, multi-streaming, and enhanced security can
significantly improve the performance of FCS applications.
Multi-streaming provides an aggregation mechanism in an SCTP association
to accommodate heterogeneous objects, which belong to the same
application but may require different type of QoS from the network.
However, the current SCTP specification lacks an internal mechanism to
support the preferential treatment among its streams. We introduce the
concept of subflow and propose to modify the current SCTP such that the
streams are grouped into several subflows according to their required
QoS. It is also proposed that each subflow should implement its own
congestion control to prevent the so-called false sharing. To
compare the throughput differences, analytic models have been derived
for the current SCTP and for the subflow-capable SCTP with different
congestion control mechanisms. Simulations with ns-2 have been used to
qualitatively demonstrate the throughput differences of these
designs in a simplified diff-serv network. The analytical models are
confirmed to accurately reflect the SCTP behavior. The simulation also
shows that our proposed solution is able to efficiently support QoS
among the SCTP streams.
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