@inproceedings{7f495722c88e461d8fb5efc424544953,
title = "Radio aware SCTP extension for handover data in EGPRS",
abstract = "SCTP is a transport protocol that is used in wired networks to transport PSTN signaling. It provides interesting features (namely multihoming and multistreaming) to enhance the performances of information transport over cellular networks air interfaces [1]. Some additional extensions have been defined to adapt SCTP in a wireless context (mSCTP) [2]. However current approaches do not take into account radio information in cell reselection/handover process. This study proposes a new extension for the SCTP protocol which aims at improving the transport performance in wireless environments. We define for that purpose a new control chunk (named Qos\_Measurement\_Chunk). It allows the emission of radio information from the mobile to the SCTP peer in the network. These information can be used by the SCTP layer to adapt the transmission rate to the current radio transmission conditions (particularly useful in handover/reselection situation). The combined use of Qos\_Measurement\_Chunk and of the multihoming feature provide a data handover with a performance improvement. The obtained simulation results are compared with the standard SCTP and present better performance in terms of data throughput in the access network.",
keywords = "Cross layer optimization, Cwnd adaptation, Flow control, Handover, Qos\_Measurement\_chunk, SCTP",
author = "M{\'e}riem Afif and Philippe Martins and Sami Tabbane and Philippe Godlewski",
year = "2006",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/PIMRC.2006.254287",
language = "English",
isbn = "1424403294",
series = "IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2006 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC",
note = "17th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2006 ; Conference date: 11-09-2006 Through 14-09-2006",
}