SCTP
E24285
SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a transport-layer network protocol designed to provide reliable, message-oriented communication with features like multi-streaming and multi-homing, often used for signaling and real-time data transmission.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SCTP canonical | 4 |
| Stream Control Transmission Protocol | 3 |
| PR-SCTP | 1 |
| SNMP over SCTP | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T193048 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SCTP Context triple: [WebRTC, supports, SCTP]
-
A.
QUIC
QUIC is a modern, multiplexed transport protocol developed by Google and standardized by the IETF that runs over UDP to provide faster, more secure, and reliable web connections than traditional TCP-based HTTPS.
-
B.
UDP
UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is a lightweight, connectionless transport-layer protocol used on the Internet for fast, low-overhead data transmission without guaranteed delivery or ordering.
-
C.
Teredo
Teredo is a tunneling protocol that enables IPv6 connectivity for devices on IPv4 networks, particularly those behind NAT.
-
D.
TCP/IP
TCP/IP is the fundamental communication protocol suite that enables data transmission and networking across the internet and most modern computer networks.
-
E.
IPsec
IPsec is a suite of protocols that provides secure, encrypted communication over IP networks by authenticating and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of data packets.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SCTP Target entity description: SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a transport-layer network protocol designed to provide reliable, message-oriented communication with features like multi-streaming and multi-homing, often used for signaling and real-time data transmission.
-
A.
QUIC
QUIC is a modern, multiplexed transport protocol developed by Google and standardized by the IETF that runs over UDP to provide faster, more secure, and reliable web connections than traditional TCP-based HTTPS.
-
B.
UDP
UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is a lightweight, connectionless transport-layer protocol used on the Internet for fast, low-overhead data transmission without guaranteed delivery or ordering.
-
C.
Teredo
Teredo is a tunneling protocol that enables IPv6 connectivity for devices on IPv4 networks, particularly those behind NAT.
-
D.
TCP/IP
TCP/IP is the fundamental communication protocol suite that enables data transmission and networking across the internet and most modern computer networks.
-
E.
IPsec
IPsec is a suite of protocols that provides secure, encrypted communication over IP networks by authenticating and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of data packets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
network protocol
ⓘ
transport layer protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SCTP self-link ⓘ |
| canEncapsulateOver |
DTLS
ⓘ
UDP ⓘ |
| category |
Internet protocol
ⓘ
transport protocol ⓘ |
| comparedWith |
Transmission Control Protocol
ⓘ
surface form:
TCP
UDP ⓘ |
| definedInRFC | RFC 4960 ⓘ |
| designGoal |
avoid head-of-line blocking between streams
ⓘ
improved robustness against flooding attacks ⓘ reliable message delivery ⓘ support for multi-homed endpoints ⓘ support for real-time data transmission ⓘ support for telephony signaling ⓘ |
| differenceFromTCP |
message-oriented instead of byte-stream
ⓘ
supports multi-homing ⓘ supports multi-streaming ⓘ |
| differenceFromUDP |
connection-oriented associations
ⓘ
provides reliable delivery ⓘ |
| firstPublishedYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| fullName |
SCTP
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Stream Control Transmission Protocol
|
| hasExtension |
SCTP
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
PR-SCTP
SCTP AUTH ⓘ SCTP over DTLS ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bundling of multiple chunks in one packet
ⓘ
heartbeat mechanism ⓘ path management ⓘ selective acknowledgments ⓘ |
| headerField |
checksum
ⓘ
destination port ⓘ source port ⓘ verification tag ⓘ |
| implementedIn |
FreeBSD
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ
surface form:
Linux kernel
NetBSD ⓘ OpenBSD ⓘ Windows ⓘ
surface form:
Windows (via third-party stacks)
|
| layer | transport layer ⓘ |
| originallyDefinedInRFC |
RFC 4960
ⓘ
surface form:
RFC 2960
|
| osiLayer | Layer 4 ⓘ |
| portNumber |
2905
ⓘ
36412 ⓘ |
| provides |
message-oriented transport
ⓘ
reliable transport ⓘ |
| rfcStatus | Internet Standard ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
cookie-based handshake to prevent SYN flooding
ⓘ
message authentication via SCTP AUTH ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
Internet Engineering Task Force
ⓘ
surface form:
IETF
|
| supports |
IPv4
ⓘ
IPv6 ⓘ congestion control ⓘ cookie mechanism for association setup ⓘ flow control ⓘ four-way handshake ⓘ multi-homing ⓘ multi-streaming ⓘ partial reliability (via PR-SCTP extension) ⓘ path failover ⓘ path redundancy ⓘ unordered delivery ⓘ |
| typicalUseCase |
SIGTRAN protocols
ⓘ
SS7 signaling transport over IP ⓘ real-time media control signaling ⓘ telecommunication signaling ⓘ |
| updatedSpecificationYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| usedBy | WebRTC data channels (via SCTP over DTLS) ⓘ |
| uses |
Stream Sequence Numbers
ⓘ
Transmission Sequence Numbers ⓘ associations instead of connections ⓘ checksum for error detection ⓘ verification tags ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: SCTP Description of subject: SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a transport-layer network protocol designed to provide reliable, message-oriented communication with features like multi-streaming and multi-homing, often used for signaling and real-time data transmission.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Stream Control Transmission Protocol
this entity surface form:
PR-SCTP
this entity surface form:
Stream Control Transmission Protocol