A Data-Scheduling Mechanism for Multi-Homed Mobile Terminals with Disparate Link Latencies

Mirani, Farhan H.; Boukhatem, Nadia; Tran, Minh

doi:10.1109/vetecf.2010.5594280

Cited by 31 publications

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“…Phatak et al [148,149], BAG [26,27], PRISM [103,104], ETOM [108], MAR [166], INTELiCON [121], MLP [51], SIMA [150], mHIP [64,151], Sun et al [189], LISP [55], OSCAR [66], LISP-HA [126] Transport BA-SCTP [13], W-SCTP [24], CMT-SCTP [8,46,47,48,49,88,89,90,119,175], LS-SCTP [5,6], cmpTCP [172], WiMP-SCTP [84], cmpSCTP [117], mSCTP-CMT [21], FPS-SCTP [128], R-MTP [120], Lee et al [110], pTCP [81,82,83], R 2 CP [80,105], Cetinkaya et al [25], mTCP [204], M-TCP [28], M/TCP [167], R-M/TCP [168], cTCP [45], MPL...…”

Section: Networkmentioning

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Multipath Transmission for the Internet: A Survey

Lukyanenko

et al. 2016

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Smart devices equipped with multiple network interfaces are becoming commonplace. Nevertheless, even though multiple interfaces can be used to connect to the Internet, their capabilities have not been fully utilized yet because the default TCP/IP stack supports only a single interface for communication. This situation is now changing due to the emergence of multipath protocols on different network stack layers. For example, many IP level approaches have been proposed utilizing tunneling mechanisms for hiding multipath transmission from the transport protocols. Several working groups under IEEE and IETF are actively standardizing multipath transmission on the link layer and transport layer. Application level approaches enable multipath transmission capability by establishing multiple transport connections and distributing data over them. Given all these efforts, it is beneficial and timely to summarize the state-of-the-art, compare their pros and cons, and discuss about the future directions. To that end, we present a survey on multipath transmission and make several major contributions: (1) we present a complete taxonomy pertaining to multipath transmission, including link, network, transport, application and cross layers; (2) we survey the state-of-the-art for each layer, investigate the problems that each layer aims to address, and make comprehensive assessment of the solutions; (3) based on the comparison, we identify open issues and pinpoint future directions for multipath transmission research.

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Section: Networkmentioning

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Multipath Transmission for the Internet: A Survey

Lukyanenko

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IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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“…Round robin is the simplest flow scheduling technique but it does not take into account the heterogeneous path characteristics (e.g., available bandwidth, RTT, and size of congestion window). Thus weighted round robin (WRR), earliest delivery path first (EDPF) [66], and forward prediction scheduling (FPS) [77] have been proposed to reduce packet reordering at the receiver. Let us briefly overview the afore-named flow scheduling techniques.…”

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The past, present, and future of transport-layer multipath

Habib

Qadir

Ali

et al. 2016

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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Multipathing in communication networks is gaining momentum due to its attractive features of increased reliability, throughput, fault tolerance, and load balancing capabilities. In particular, wireless environments and datacenters are envisioned to become largely dependent on the power of multipathing for seamless handovers, virtual machine (VM) migration and in general, pooling less proficient resources together for achieving overall high proficiency. The transport layer, with its knowledge about end-to-end path characteristics, is well placed to enhance performance through better utilization of multiple paths. Realizing the importance of transport-layer multipath, this paper investigates the modernization of traditional connection establishment, flow control, sequence number splitting, acknowledgement, and flow scheduling mechanisms for use with multiple paths. Since congestion control defines fundamental feature of the transport layer, we study the working of multipath rate control and analyze its stability and convergence. We also discuss how various multipath congestion control algorithms differ in their window increase and decrease functions, their TCP-friendliness, and responsiveness. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first in-depth survey paper that has chronicled the evolution of the transport layer of the Internet from the traditional singlepath TCP to the recent development of the modern multipath TCP (MPTCP) protocol. Along with describing the history of this evolution, we also highlight in this paper the remaining challenges and research issues.

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“…Because of the great similarities in adopted congestion control protocols between an SCTP stream and a TCP connection, SCTP extensions attempt to address the same challenges discussed in Section 2.2.1 while extending their congestion control mechanism. Similar to extending the congestion control of TCP, many solutions implement the standard SCTP stream congestion control mechanism at each sub-stream independent of the other sub-streams [59,60,61,62,63,64,65]. On the other hand, other SCTP extensions deploy a congestion control mechanism on the whole stream [66,67].…”

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“…This procedure is done for each chunk until the congestion windows of the available paths have been exhausted. FPS dynamically estimates the packet delivery time at each network interface and fills this difference with in-order data to avoid packet reordering [64]. Cross-layer FPS [63] extends FPS [64] using a cross-layering approach to include the MAC layer contention delays (ex.…”

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Bandwidth aggregation techniques in heterogeneous multi-homed devices: A survey

2015

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The widespread deployment of various networking technologies, coupled with the exponential increase in end-user data demand, have led to the proliferation of multi-homed, or multi-interface enabled, devices. These trends drove researchers to investigate a wide spectrum of solutions, at different layers of the protocol stack, that utilize available interfaces in such devices by aggregating their bandwidth. In this survey paper, we provide an overview and examine the evolution of bandwidth aggregation solutions over time. We begin by describing the bandwidth aggregation problem. We then investigate the common features of proposed bandwidth aggregation systems and break them down into two major categories: layer-dependent and layer-independent features. Afterwards, we discuss the evolution trends in the literature and discuss some open challenges requiring further research. We end the survey with a brief presentation of related work in tangential research areas.

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A Data-Scheduling Mechanism for Multi-Homed Mobile Terminals with Disparate Link Latencies

Cited by 31 publications

References 7 publications

Multipath Transmission for the Internet: A Survey

Multipath Transmission for the Internet: A Survey

The past, present, and future of transport-layer multipath

Bandwidth aggregation techniques in heterogeneous multi-homed devices: A survey

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