Sigtran Resources

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Last updated	2007 August 19
Purpose	Quick directory of Sigtran resources.
Training	* For Sigtran training courses and a Sigtran discussion forum please visit www.SS7.net *
Sigtran	List of Sigtran tutorials which cover the entire topic of Sigtran in general: Introduction to Sigtran (Artesyn)
Books	List of Sigtran books: Signaling System No. 7 (SS7/C7): Protocol, Architecture, and Services (Amazon.com)
SCTP	List of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) tutorials: Stream Control Transmission Protocol - The design of a new reliable transport protocol for IP networks (Masters thesis by Ivan Rodriguez) SCTP - A detailed overview of the protocol and a examination of the socket API (Cisco, 2003) Signaling transport over IP-based networks using IETF standards (by Gradischnig and Tuxen) SCTP - A Multi-link End-to-end Protocol for IP-based networks (International Journal of Electronics and Communications) SCTP for beginners (IEM - University Essen, by Prof. Rathgeb) Why is SCTP needed given TCP and UDP are widely available? (Internet Society member briefing #7, by Randall Stewart and Paul D. Amer) SCTP Primer (CERN) SS7 over IP Signaling Transport & SCTP (from Airslide) List of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) related articles and papers: Performance Evaluation of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, June 2000) Experimental studies of SCTP multi-homing (Teltec DCU) SCTP versus TCP: Comparing the Performance of Transport Protocols for Web Traffic (University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2002) SCTP and TCP Variants: Congestion Control Under Multiple Losses (University of Delaware/Cisco) A Two-level Threshold Recovery Mechanism for SCTP (University of Delaware/Cisco) SCTP: State of the Art in Research, Products and Technical Challenges (May, 2006) List of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) related presentations: SCTP: A new networking protocol for super protocol for super-computing (University of Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma)
M2PA	List of MTP2 Peer-to-Peer Adaptation Layer (M2PA) tutorials: MTP2 Peer-to-Peer Adaptation Layer (M2PA) (presentation to the Sigtran Working Group, August 2000)
IETF RFCs	Cached copies of the primary IETF standards documents. Please visit the IETF for live versions: M3UA (RFC 4666, obsoletes RFC 3332, September 2006) SCTP (RFC 2960, October 2000) M2UA (RFC 3331, September 2002) M2PA (RFC 4165, September 2005) SUA (RFC 3868, October 2004) Additional cached copies of RFCs of interest. Please visit the IETF for live versions: M3UA (RFC 3332, obsoleted by RFC 4666, September 2002) SCTP Checksum Change (RFC 3309, September 2002) An Introduction to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) (RFC 3286, May 2002) Security Considerations for Signaling Transport (SIGTRAN) Protocols (RFC 3788, June 2004) Stream Control Transmission Protocol Applicability Statement (RFC 3257, April 2002) Framework Architecture for Signaling Transport (RFC 2719, October 1999) Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Specification Errata and Issues (RFC 4460, April 2006) Transport Layer Security over Stream Control Transmission Protocol (RFC 3436, December 2002)
Open Source	List of open source SCTP implementations: Linux Kernel SCTP SCTP Library (sctplib) RivuS - SCTP on BSD Solaris Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) List of open source SCTP test solutions: SCTP ns-2 Module List of open source user adaptation layer implementations: M3UA SUA
Free Tools	List of free tools: SCTP Test Tool (STT) SCTPperf