COMPUTER NETWORKING

Detailed explanation-1: -SCTP association is comprised of a four way handshake that takes place in the following order: The client sends an INIT signal to the server to initiate an association. On receipt of the INIT signal, the server sends an INIT-ACK response to the client. This INIT-ACK signal contains a state cookie.

Detailed explanation-2: -Associations are identified by their Association ID. Association ID’s are guaranteed to be unique for the lifetime of the association. An association ID may be reused after the association has been shutdown. An association ID is not unique across multiple SCTP channels.

Detailed explanation-3: -SCTP is message-oriented, unlike TCP, which is byte-oriented. Because of the byte-oriented nature of TCP, the application has to add its own record marking to maintain message boundaries. SCTP provides some degree of fault tolerance by using the Multihoming feature.