MPTCP is not pareto-optimal: Performance issues and a possible solution

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1651-1665

  Khalili, Ramin ^a   Gast, Nicolas ^b   Popovic, Miroslav ^b   Le Boudec, Jean Yves ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Congestion control algorithm; Multipath TCP; Performance evaluation; Protocol design

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYERS; CONGESTED PATHS; MULTIPATH TCP; MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE ISSUES; PROTOCOL DESIGN; RESOURCE POOLING;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DESIGN; PARETO PRINCIPLE; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84887094198     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2013.2274462     Document Type: Article

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