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New Internet Protocals for Multimedia Transmission

Michael Welzl

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This chapter will introduce three new IETF transport layer protocols in support of multimedia data transmission and discuss their usage. First, the stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) will be described; this protocol was originally designed for telephony signaling across the Internet, but it is in fact broadly applicable. Second, UDP-Lite (an even simpler UDP) will be explained; this is an example of a small protocol change that opened a large can of worms. The chapter concludes with an overview of the datagram congestion control protocol (DCCP), a newly devised IETF protocol for the transmission of unreliable (typically real-time multimedia) data streams.

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Key concepts: User Datagram Protocol, Datagram, Stream Control Transmission Protocol, Computer science, Computer network, Transmission Control Protocol, The Internet, Transport layer