Delay Penalty during SCTP Handover

• The rapidly growing interest in untethered Internet connections such as WLAN and 3G/4G mobile connections,calls for intelligent session management, not least in terms of handovers. As part of an effort to develop a SCTP-based session management framework, we are studying ways of improving the SCTP handover delay forreal-time traffic by optimizing the startup delay on the handover-target path. We have developed a theoretical model that predicts the transfer times of SCTP messages during the startup on a new path. This paper validates our model. It shows that the model can be used to predict message transfer times in variable bitrate flows. The paper further employs our model to study the startup delay penalty during handover for the spectrum of network conditions considered relevant for real-time traffic over mobile connections.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Computer Science

Datavetenskap

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