A measurement-based study of multipath TCP performance over wireless networks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 455-468

  Chen, Yung Chih ^a   Lim, Yeon Sup ^a   Gibbens, Richard J ^b   Nahum, Erich M ^c   Khalili, Ramin ^d   Towsley, Don ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d T Labs   (Germany)

Author keywords

3G; 4G; CDMA; Cellular networks; Congestion control; LTE; Measurements; MPTCP; Multi path TCP; Wireless

Indexed keywords

3G; 4G; CELLULAR NETWORK; LTE; MPTCP; MULTI-PATH TCP;

ALGORITHMS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA TRANSFER; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; MEASUREMENTS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84890029675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2504730.2504751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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