Frequently Asked Questions on Transport Layer Protocol
How does the SCTP protocol provide more security?
SCTP makes use of 4-way handshake whereas TCP makes use of 3-way handshake. SCTP provides with protection against SYN flooding attacks, man in the middle attack, large cookies and half open connections.
What are the advantages of SCTP over TCP protocol?
The advantages of SCTP over TCP are SCTP has a fault tolerance mechanism and provides with protection against the attacks such as SYN flooding, man in the middle etc.
Comparing TCP and UDP which protocol is faster?
Comparing TCP and UDP, UDP protocol is more faster and efficient as compared to TCP. UDP protocol is a connectionless protocol and does not need to establish any connection for transmission of data.
What is the use of a port in IP?
Port number is used to identify a specific service or application on the system.
How TCP ensures reliability?
TCP ensures reliability through a mechanism called thrre-way Handshakeing mechanism.
Transport Layer Protocols
The transport layer is the fourth layer in the OSI model and the second layer in the TCP/IP model. The transport layer provides with end to end connection between the source and the destination and reliable delivery of the services. Therefore transport layer is known as the end-to-end layer. The transport layer takes the services from its upward layer which is the application layer and provides it to the network layer. Segment is the unit of data encapsulation at the transport layer.
In this article, we are going to discuss all the important aspects of Transport Layer Protocol which include: Functions of Transport Layer protocol, characteristics of TLP, UDP & UDP Segemnts and their Advantages and Disadvantages, TCP & TCP Segemnts and their Advantages and Disadvantages, SCTP and its Advantages & Disadvantages.