Stream Control Transmission Protocol

By Stewart, R.

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Technical Reference Publication

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Introduction: This section explains the reasoning behind the development of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), the services it offers, and the basic concepts needed to understand the detailed description of the protocol.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents 1. Introduction.................................................. 5 1.1 Motivation.................................................. 6 1.2 Architectural View of SCTP.................................. 6 1.3 Functional View of SCTP..................................... 7 1.3.1 Association Startup and Takedown........................ 8 1.3.2 Sequenced Delivery within Streams....................... 9 1.3.3 User Data Fragmentation................................. 9 1.3.4 Acknowledgement and Congestion Avoidance................ 9 1.3.5 Chunk Bundling ......................................... 10 1.3.6 Packet Validation....................................... 10 1.3.7 Path Management......................................... 11 1.4 Key Terms................................................... 11 1.5 Abbreviations............................................... 15 1.6 Serial Number Arithmetic.................................... 15 2. Conventions.................................................... 16 3. SCTP packet Format............................................ 16 3.1 SCTP Common Header Field Descriptions....................... 17 3.2 Chunk Field Descriptions.................................... 18 3.2.1 Optional/Variable-length Parameter Format............... 20 3.3 SCTP Chunk Definitions...................................... 21 3.3.1 Payload Data (DATA)..................................... 22 3.3.2 Initiation (INIT)....................................... 24 3.3.2.1 Optional or Variable Length Parameters.............. 26 3.3.3 Initiation Acknowledgement (INIT ACK)................... 30 3.3.3.1 Optional or Variable Length Parameters.............. 33 3.3.4 Selective Acknowledgement (SACK)........................ 33 3.3.5 Heartbeat Request (HEARTBEAT)........................... 37 3.3.6 Heartbeat Acknowledgement (HEARTBEAT ACK)............... 38 3.3.7 Abort Association (ABORT)............................... 39 3.3.8 Shutdown Association (SHUTDOWN)......................... 40 3.3.9 Shutdown Acknowledgement (SHUTDOWN ACK)................. 40 3.3.10 Operation Error (ERROR)................................ 41 3.3.10.1 Invalid Stream Identifier.......................... 42 3.3.10.2 Missing Mandatory Parameter........................ 43 3.3.10.3 Stale Cookie Error................................. 43 3.3.10.4 Out of Resource.................................... 44 3.3.10.5 Unresolvable Address............................... 44 3.3.10.6 Unrecognized Chunk Type............................ 44 3.3.10.7 Invalid Mandatory Parameter........................ 45 3.3.10.8 Unrecognized Parameters............................ 45 3.3.10.9 No User Data....................................... 46 3.3.10.10 Cookie Received While Shutting Down............... 46 3.3.11 Cookie Echo (COOKIE ECHO).............................. 46 3.3.12 Cookie Acknowledgement (COOKIE ACK).................... 47 3.3.13 Shutdown Complete (SHUTDOWN COMPLETE).................. 48 4. SCTP Association State Diagram................................. 48

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Stream Control Transmission Protocol

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