Services provided by IETF transport protocols and congestion control mechanisms
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Network Working Group G. Fairhurst, Ed.
Internet-Draft University of Aberdeen
Intended status: Informational B. Trammell, Ed.
Expires: June 10, 2016 M. Kuehlewind, Ed.
ETH Zurich
December 08, 2015
Services provided by IETF transport protocols and congestion control
mechanisms
draft-ietf-taps-transports-08
Abstract
This document describes transport services provided by existing IETF
protocols. It is designed to help application and network stack
programmers and to inform the work of the IETF TAPS Working Group.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Transport Service Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Congestion Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Existing Transport Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Transport Control Protocol (TCP) . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1.1. Protocol Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1.2. Interface description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1.3. Transport Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2. Multipath TCP (MPTCP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2.1. Protocol Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2.2. Interface Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2.3. Transport features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) . . . . . . . 10
4.3.1. Protocol Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.3.2. Interface Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3.3. Transport Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4.1. Protocol Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4.2. Interface Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.4.3. Transport Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.5. Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite) . . . . . . 18
4.5.1. Protocol Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.5.2. Interface Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.5.3. Transport Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.6. Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) . . . . . . . 20
4.6.1. Protocol Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.6.2. Interface Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.6.3. Transport Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.7. Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) . . . . . . . . 22
4.7.1. Protocol Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.7.2. Interface Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.7.3. Transport Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.8. Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP) . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.8.1. Protocol Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.8.2. Interface Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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