Deployment of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) to Maintain the Applications of Data Centers

摘要

With developments of real-time applications into data centers, the need foralternatives of the standard TCP protocol has been prime demand in severalapplications of data centers. The several alternatives of TCP protocol has beenproposed but SCTP has edge due to its several well-built characteristics thatmake it capable to work efficiently. In this paper, we examine the features ofSCTP into data centers like Multi-streaming and Multi-homing over the featuresof TCP protocol. In this paper, our objective is to introduce internal problemsof data centers. Robust transport protocol reduces the problems with someextend. Focusing the problems of data centers, we also examine weakness ofhighly deployed standard TCP, and evaluate the performance of SCTP in contextof faster communication for data centers. We also discover some weaknesses andshortcomings of SCTP into data centers and try to propose some ways to avoidthem by maintaining SCTP native features. To validate strength and weakness ofTCP and SCTP, we use ns2 for simulation in context of data center. On basis offindings, we highlight major strength of SCTP. At the end, we Implemen