Cisco SystemsŪ, Empowering the Internet Generation(SM) Randall Stewart' Home Page

This Home Page only contains some of the things I have put together here and there.

A picture of me at Glacier National Park
 
SCTP Nerd Lunch from 2001
    • The SCTP NERD lunch presentation
    RFC's that I have participated in
  • RFC2960 - Stream Control Transmission Protocol
  • RFC3237 - Requirements for Reliable Server Pooling
  • RFC3309 - SCTP Checksum Change
  • RFC3554 - On the use of SCTP with IPSEC
  • RFC4460 - SCTP Errata and Issues
  • RFC4895 - Authenticated Chunks for SCTP
  • RFC4960 - Stream Control Transmission Protocol
  • RFC5061 - SCTP Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
  • RFC5062 - Security Attacks Found Against SCTP and Current Countermeasures
    • Internet Drafts extending SCTP  
  • PKT-DROP This draft extends SCTP to work with the internal tunneling protocol for satellite networks RBSCP.
  • StreamReset This draft adds reconfiguration for SCTP streams.
    • Internet Drafts Tuning SCTP  
  • ECN This draft defines how to do ECN Nonce with SCTP.
  • SCTP Sockets This draft defines the SCTP socket API.
  • SCTP and RDDP This draft (soon to be RFC) defines how to use SCTP with RDDP.
    • Internet Drafts For Reliable Server Pooling  
  • ASAP This draft defines the ASAP protocol that is a companion to ENRP.
  • ENRP This draft defines the ENRP protocol that is a companion to ASAP.
  • COMMON This draft defines the common parameters for ASAP & ENRP.
    • Publications with the University of Delaware
  • SCTP Congestion window overgrowth during Change-over
  • A two level threshold recovery mechanism for SCTP.
  • A sigcomm poster submitted in 2002
  • SCTP and TCP varients: Congestion Control under multiple losses.
  • Transport Layer Multi-homing for fault tolerance in FCS networks.
  • Transport Layer load balancing in FCS networks.
  • Retransmission Policy's with transport layer Multi-homing.
  • Making SCTP more robust to changover.
    • Other publications and such  
  • The recent SCTP course I gave with Peter Lei
  • A past Rserpool overview presentation
  • SCTP-Book The book Qiaobing Xie and I published on SCTP.
  • UNP book The new UNP contains more than three chapters worth of information I wrote on SCTP's socket API.
    • Patents I hold  
  • R. Stewart, P. Lei, K. Morneault. Technique for determining multi-path latency in multi-homed transport protocol, USPN 7277954
  • A. Ramaiah, R. Stewart, P. Lei, P. Mahan. Preventing network data injection attacks using duplicate-ACK and reassembly gap approaches, USPN 7257840
  • M. Dalah, A. Khare, R. Stewart. Preventing network reset denial of service attacks, USPN 7203961
  • A. Ramaiah, R. Stewart, P. Lei, P. Mahan. Preventing network data injection attacks using duplicate-ACK and reassembly gap approaches, USPN 7114181
  • Q. Xie, R. Stewart, L Yarroll. Method and apparatus for data transmission, USPN 7072309
  • R. Stewart, P. Lei. Methods and apparatus for using SCTP to provide mobility of a network device, USPN 7051109
  • R. Stewart. Fast failure detection using RTT time considerations on a non-retransmit medium, USPN 7027389
  • R. Stewart, E. Martinez, T. Joyner, R. Noradt. Method and apparatus for completing a handover between a wireless communications system, USPN 6373828
  • S. Silverman, R. Liss, R. Stewart. Communication network method and apparatus, USPN 6324572
  • L. Oberlander, R. Stewart, Q. Xie. Method and apparatus in a communication network for updating and maintaining record data, USPN 6286032
  • P. Neumiller, P. Lei, R. Stewart. Method and selector for performing selection in a communication system, USPN 6226283
  • R. Stewart, Q. Xie, P. Neumiller. Method for evaluating a communication link between a first and second communication site, USPN 6134221
  • P. Neumiller, P. Lei, R. Stewart. Method and apparatus for performing distribution in a communication system, USPN 6072790
  • R. Stewart, Q. Xie. Method of switching a call to a multipoint conference call in a H.323 communication compliant environment, USPN 6018360
    • More on SCTP can be found at  
  • sctp.org
  • sctp.de
  • University of Delaware's Pel Lab