This document specifies how to establish secure connection-oriented media transport sessions over the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol using the Session Description Protocol (SDP). It defines a new SDP protocol identifier, ’TCP/TLS’. It also defines the syntax and semantics for an SDP ’fingerprint’ attribute that identifies the certificate that will be presented for the TLS session. This...

An Internet-based teleoperation system is an interactive application where a human user transmits movement data of a robotic device while simultaneously receiving reflected force data from a remote teleoperator. Performance of such real-time applications is highly sensitive to the Internet delay and data loss. In this paper, we describe the efficient transport protocol (ETP) designed for Intern...

In recent years, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has become widely used in current internet protocols. It is a text-based protocol much like Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP) and Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP). SIP is a strong enough signaling protocol on the internet for establishing, maintaining, and terminating session. In this paper the areas of security and attacks in SIP are d...

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new Internet standards track transport layer protocol. SCTP was originally designed to transport PSTN signaling messages over IP networks, but is also capable of serving as a general purpose transport protocol. As such, SCTP provides an alternative that may be better able to satisfy the requirements of future battlefield networks than the tra...

TCP is the transport protocol used predominantly in the Internet as well as in peer-to-peer networks. However, peerto-peer networks exhibit very different characteristics from those of conventional client-server networks. In this paper, we argue that the unique characteristics of peer-to-peer networks render TCP inappropriate for effective data transport in such networks. Specifically, we motiv...

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) based web agents have has several deficiencies, such as performance degradation, head-of-line blocking, and unsupported mobility when applied to the mobile wireless environment. The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new transport protocol, which provides multistreaming and multi-homing features. Recent SCTP extensions with dynamic address recon...

We describe the adaptation of an ATM-based protocol, the Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol (SSCOP), for use as a transport protocol in a datagram-based satellite data network. This protocol operates with high throughput and efficiency over links with a large bandwidth-delay product, including those with a high bit error or packet loss rate. We discuss the modifications to SSCOP nece...

transport is a transport-level solution that makes it possible for end hosts to use multiple access networks simultaneously. This dissertation analyzes the feasibility of using multipath transport in mobile networks. Prior studies suggest that a protocol for multipath transport requires user need, that the protocol is superior to existing solutions, and that the network has capacity. This disse...

Introduction The concept of parallelism may significantly increase the performance of transport subsystems [1, 2, 3, etc.]. A transport subsystem covers a subset of a complete transport system, which combines the functions of the four lower layers according to the OSI Reference Model. Because parallelising standard protocols like OSI TP4/CLNP or TCP/IP suffers from their inherent sequential str...

Multimedia has varying optimal transport methods. The traditional methods employed by transport protocols are to ship all data through identical protocol stacks. An ideal method would transport each media through an optimized stack constructed solely for that medium, allowing improved multimedia QoS to be achieved even at runtime. Dynamically composable protocol stacks overcome the limitations ...