Title
Using Concurrent Multipath Transfer to Improve the SCTP Startup Behavior for PSTN Signaling Traffic
Abstract
Although latency in the Internet has gained much attention in the research community, the latency issues of mobile control signaling have received less attention, and this all the while many telecom operators are experiencing a several-hundred percent increase in signaling traffic over only a couple of years. We believe one way to address both the latency and increased signaling load of mobile networks, is to exploit concurrent transfer of signaling traffic over several paths a.k.a. Concurrent multipath transfer. This paper studies whether or not SCTP extended with concurrent multipath transfer (CMT-SCTP) could provide a faster startup behavior than standard SCTP. The paper complements previous work on CMT-SCTP, and extends it to PSTN signaling traffic. The paper suggests that CMT-SCTP could give a faster startup behavior over paths with similar bandwidths and round-trip times, but that its behavior is sensitive to differences in round-trip time between the paths. Moreover, the paper suggests that provided CMT-SCTP is configured with large enough send and receive buffers, it could provide a faster startup behavior than standard SCTP over a multipath association, in spite of some of the paths having a packet-loss rate of several percent.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/WAINA.2014.126
Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,mobile radio,signalling protocols,switching networks,telecommunication congestion control,telecommunication traffic,transport protocols,CMT-SCTP,Internet,PSTN signaling traffic,SCTP startup behavior improvement,concurrent multipath transfer,latency issues,mobile control signaling,mobile network signaling load,multipath association,packet-loss rate,public switched telephone network,receive buffers,round-trip times,send buffers,stream control transmission protocol,telecom operators,cmt-sctp,multipath,pstn,sctp,signaling,startup
Information system,Multipath propagation,Stream Control Transmission Protocol,Computer science,Latency (engineering),Telecom operators,Computer network,Exploit,Distributed computing,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karl-Johan Grinnemo114321.42
Anna Brunstrom2102.04
Jun Cheng310.37