Congestion Control Design for Multipath Transport Protocols: A Survey

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2948-2969

  Xu, Changqiao ^a   Zhao, Jia ^b   Muntean, Gabriel Miro ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

load balancing; multipath congestion control; Multipath transport protocol; TCP friendliness

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PARETO PRINCIPLE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVEYS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CONGESTION CONTROL MECHANISM; HIGH QUALITY SERVICE; MULTI-PATH TRANSMISSION; MULTIPATH; MULTIPATH TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS; NETWORK APPLICATIONS; TCP FRIENDLINESS; THEORETICAL ALGORITHMS;

WI-FI;

EID: 84999748195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2558818     Document Type: Review

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