Reliable data delivery and congestion control are two fundamental transport layer functions. Due to the specific characteristics of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), traditional transport layer protocols (e.g. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP)) that are widely used in the Internet may not be suitable for WSNs. In this paper, the characteristics of WSNs are revi...

Numerous transport protocols and protocol enhancements (e.g. TCPELN, WTCP, STP, etc) have been proposed for optimal performance in different types of wireless networks. In this paper, we define “transport layer adaptation” as the behavior of the transport protocol, with the goal of obtaining best performance, when a mobile host moves across different wireless networks. While defacto assumptions...

Many security protocols are built as the composition of an applicationlayer protocol and a secure transport protocol, such as TLS. There are many approaches to proving the correctness of such protocols. One popular approach is verification by abstraction, in which the correctness of the application-layer protocol is proven under the assumption that the transport layer satisfies certain properti...

The inefficient assignment of spectrum for different communications purposes, plus technology enhancements and ever-increasing usage of wireless technology is causing spectrum scarcity. To address this issue, one of the proposed solutions in the literature is to access the spectrum dynamically or opportunistically. Therefore, the concept of cognitive radio appeared, which opens up a new researc...

This document specifies PT-TLS, a TLS-based Posture Transport (PT) protocol. The PT-TLS protocol carries the Network Endpoint Assessment (NEA) message exchange under the protection of a Transport Layer Security (TLS) secured tunnel.

Congestion control is a recognized problem in complex networks. We have discovered that the Department of Defense’s Internet Protocol (IP) , a pure datagram protocol, and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), a transport layer protocol, when used together, are subject to unusual congestion problems caused by interactions between the transport and datagram layers. In particular, IP gateways are v...

The General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) protocol currently uses TCP or Transport Layer Security (TLS) over TCP for Connection mode operation. This document describes the usage of GIST over the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS).

This document introduces the FCAST reliable object (e.g., file) delivery application. It is designed to operate either on top of the underlying Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) / Layered Coding Transport (LCT) reliable multicast transport protocol or the NACKOriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) transport protocol.

Real-time event stream processing (RT-ESP) applications must synchronize continuous data streams, e.g., infrared scans and video monitoring for survivor detection after a natural disaster, despite fluctuations in resource availability. Satisfying these needs of RT-ESP applications requires predictable QoS from the underlying publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware. If a transport protocol is not...