How hard can it be? Designing and implementing a deployable multipath TCP

Proceedings of NSDI 2012: 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 399-412

  Raiciu, Costin ^a   Paasch, Christoph ^b   Barre, Sebastien ^b   Ford, Alan ^e   Honda, Michio ^c   Duchene, Fabien ^b   Bonaventure, Olivier ^b   Handley, Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DEPLOYABILITY; LINUX KERNEL; MULTI-HOMING; MULTIPATH TCP; MULTIPLE RADIOS; MULTIPLE-PATH; REDUNDANT PATHS; SERVER FARMS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 85076641966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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