Multi-path transport over heterogeneous wireless networks: Does it really pay off?

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 4807-4813

  Ferlin, Simone ^a   Dreibholz, Thomas ^a   Alay, Özgu ^a  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous Networks; Mobile Broadband; Multi Path TCP; Multi Path Transport; Performance

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; MOBILE BROADBAND; MULTI-PATH TCP; MULTI-PATH TRANSPORT; MULTIPATH; MULTIPLE INTERFACES; PATH TRANSFER; PERFORMANCE; TRANSFER PROTOCOL;

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

EID: 84949922263     PISSN: 23340983     EISSN: 25766813     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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