Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, Xin Long: SCTP -- a transport protocol may blow your mind

SCTP is a transport protocol, side by side with TCP and UDP, originated from SIGTRAN IETF Working Group in the early 2000's with the initial objetive of supporting the transport of PSTN signalling over IP networks. Since then it had numerous improvements that help it serve other purposes too, such as support for partially reliability and stream scheduling. In this talk we will do a quick review on SCTP basics, then go through the improvements that were done in the Linux stack in the past 2 years and review a list of what is in our radar for the next steps.