relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/2015/ title: Improving network performance by enabling explicit congestion notification (ECN) in SCTP control chunks creator: Tahir, H.M. creator: Md Said, A. creator: Elhalabi, M.J.M. creator: Puteh, N. creator: Othman, A. creator: Muhd Zain, N. creator: Md Dahalin, Z. creator: Ismail, M.H. creator: Mohd Zaini, K. creator: Zabidin Hussin, M. description: The need for a reliable transmission protocol that can cover the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) has prompted the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to define a new protocol called the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). This paper proposes adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) mechanism into SCTP chunks (INIT chunk, and INIT-ACK chunk) to reduce the delay of transferring important data during congestion as compared with the TCP and UDP protocols. This paper also discusses the details of adding ECN, and the reason for choosing Random Early Detection (RED). Through the experimental analysis, we compare SCTP enabled ECN in INIT-ACK chunk to SCTP without ECN enabled in INIT-ACK chunk and demonstrate the result of ECN impact on SCTP delay time. © 2011 Springer-Verlag. date: 2011 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Tahir, H.M. and Md Said, A. and Elhalabi, M.J.M. and Puteh, N. and Othman, A. and Muhd Zain, N. and Md Dahalin, Z. and Ismail, M.H. and Mohd Zaini, K. and Zabidin Hussin, M. (2011) Improving network performance by enabling explicit congestion notification (ECN) in SCTP control chunks. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 188 CC (PART 1). pp. 288-297. ISSN 18650929 relation: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79960304325&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-22389-1_26&partnerID=40&md5=6bb300db0fa8f51a0a3ab0fbfc285977 relation: 10.1007/978-3-642-22389-1₂₆ identifier: 10.1007/978-3-642-22389-1₂₆