What additional services are supported by SCTP but are not p

What additional services are supported by SCTP but are not provided by TCP and UDP. Also, what makes SCTP an ideal platform for carrying signaling messages?

Solution

2 problems in TCP which are not there in sctp

1)head of line blocking and 2) multihoming

1)head of line blocking: this is a problem where sender independent messages are sent over an order-preserving TCP connection causes delivery of messages sent later to be delayed within a receiver\'s transport layer buffers until an earlier lost message is retransmitted and arrives. These later messages often established as independent telephone calls.

2)multihoming:here a host with multiple points of attachment to the Internet,does not want to wait for a routing convergence to communicate critical messages to its peer communication endpoint.These are dne for redundant processes.