Proactive Multipath TCP for Seamless Handoff in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks

Sinky, Hassan; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen

doi:10.1109/twc.2016.2545656

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“…Other researchers leverage the LENA module (LTE) [ 8 ] and the Wi-Fi modules [ 23 ] of ns-3 to build a multipath heterogeneous wireless network environment. In [ 24 ], the authors analyze the throughput performance of MPTCP in a heterogeneous wireless network of LTE and Wi-Fi, where a Wi-Fi subflow experiences multiple handoffs. They propose congestion control strategies suitable for the handoff scenario and validate the proposed method using ns-3 DCE.…”

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On the Fidelity of NS-3 Simulations of Wireless Multipath TCP Connections

Prakash

Abdrabou

2020

Sensors

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The multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) is considered a promising wireless multihoming solution, and the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) includes it as a standard feature in the fifth-generation (5G) networks. Currently, ns-3 (Network Simulator-3) is widely used to evaluate the performance of wireless networks and protocols, including the emerging MPTCP protocol. This paper investigates the fidelity of the Linux kernel implementation of MPTCP in the ns-3 direct code execution module. The fidelity of MPTCP simulation is tested by comparing its performance with a real Linux stack implementation of MPTCP using a hardware testbed for two different setups. One setup emulates the existence of a bottleneck link between the sending and receiving networks, whereas the other setup does not have such a bottleneck. The fidelity of ns-3’s simulation is tested for four congestion control algorithms, namely Cubic, linked-increases algorithm (LIA), opportunistic LIA (OLIA) and wVegas for relatively short and long data flows. It is found that the uplink MPTCP throughput performance exhibited by the ns-3 simulator matches the hardware testbed results only if the flows are long-lived and share no common bottleneck link. Likewise, the MPTCP throughput achieved during a downlink scenario using the ns-3 simulator and the hardware testbed are close to each other across all algorithms except wVegas regardless of the flow size if there is no bottleneck link. Moreover, it is observed that the impact of LTE handover on MPTCP throughput is less significant in the simulator than the real hardware testbed, and it is setup-dependent.

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On the Fidelity of NS-3 Simulations of Wireless Multipath TCP Connections

Prakash

Abdrabou

2020

Sensors

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“…Physical Constraint and Load Aware (PCLA) handover were presented in [11] to determine a load of access points for congestion detection purposes. Proactive Multipath TCP for Seamless Handoff was performed in [12] for solving handoff and mobility-related service continuity problems in heterogeneous wireless access networks.…”

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Bagging Ensembled Perceptron Classifier for Seamless Mobility System in Heterogeneous Network

Reddy*,

Dr. Chandrasekhar

2020

IJITEE

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Wireless mobile devices require a handover decision system to get a seamless connection in a heterogeneous wireless networking environment. The handover process is one of the most significant processes in a cellular network. Few research works have been developed for providing seamless connectivity using different handover techniques. But, controlling data traffic during the process of seamless mobile data connectivity was not solved. So, there is a necessity to introduce a new model to control the traffic and improving the seamless mobility management in heterogeneous network. A new model called Bagging Ensembled Perceptron Classification based Seamless Mobility (BEPC-SM) introduced to achieve higher data delivery rate with minimum packet loss rate and data transmission delay by means of classifying the mobile nodes in heterogeneous network. In BEPC-SM model, randomly considers a number of mobile nodes in the heterogeneous network as input. Then, BEPC-SM model determines signal strength for each mobile node in a heterogeneous network. Bagging Ensembled Perceptron Classification algorithm is used in BEPC-SM model with the aim of accurately classifying all mobile nodes as strong or weak strength node with a lower amount of time consumption. After that, the distance between the weak strength node and the access point in the network is measured. Lastly, BEPC-SM Model selects the nearby access point with maximum bandwidth availability for each weak strength node in the network to perform the handover process. Thus, the performance of seamless data communication in a heterogeneous network is improved in BEPC-SM model. The BEPC-SM model is used in traffic-aware seamless data communication in a heterogeneous network. Simulation evaluation of the BEPC-SM Model is carried out on factors such as data delivery rate, packet loss rate, data transmission delay with respect to a number of data packets. The simulation result depicts that the BEPC-SM Model is able to increases the data delivery rate and also reduces delay when compared to state-of-the-art works.

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“…The multihomed devices can establish FIGURE 1 MPTCP-based data transmission in a multihomed wireless system an MPTCP connection without needing to make any further changes to the Internet applications and still being backward-compatible to the current network infrastructure. 7 Therefore, MPTCP is being considered as a preferred and highly promising transport protocol for data transmission in today's and future network architectures.…”

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“…7 Therefore, MPTCP is being considered as a preferred and highly promising transport protocol for data transmission in today's and future network architectures. 7 Therefore, MPTCP is being considered as a preferred and highly promising transport protocol for data transmission in today's and future network architectures.…”

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(PU)²M²: A potentially underperforming‐aware path usage management mechanism for secure MPTCP‐based multipathing services

Cao

Song

Luo

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Concurrency and Computation

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Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is a promising transport protocol that allows a multihomed device to simultaneously use multiple network interfaces to send application data over multiple paths.However, although applying MPTCP to data delivery introduces many and attractive benefits, the MPTCP is vulnerable to network attacks. When a path within the MPTCP connection suffers from some types of attacks (eg, a denial-of-service attack) and becomes underperforming, it will undoubtedly cause transmission interruption in the stable paths and thus degrade the application-level performance. Unfortunately, the MPTCP path management mechanism is very simple and cannot timely prevent the usage of underperforming paths in multipath transmission.In this paper, we introduce a new "potentially underperforming" (PU) concept to MPTCP and propose a novel PU-aware path usage management mechanism ((PU) 2 M 2 ) for MPTCP aiming to (1) detect and declare an underperforming path and prevent the usage of underperforming paths in multipath transmission, (2) provide a finite-state-machine model to change per-path's state accordingly and effectively manage multiple paths for data transmission, and (3) alleviate the packet reordering problem and make MPTCP avoid throughput performance degradation during network underperforming. We demonstrate the benefits of applying (PU) 2 M 2 to MPTCP. KEYWORDS multipath TCP, network attacks, path management, secure multipathing services 1 INTRODUCTION Recently, wireless access technologies such as IEEE 802.11 WiFi standards and 3G/4G cellular networks have undergone a period of dramatic development. These significant technological achievements provide a mobile user with ubiquitous Internet connectivity. 1,2 In the meantime, boosted by the technological innovation and newest progress of wireless access technologies, modern mobile devices (ie, Personal Digital Assistants and Smart phones) are equipped with multinetwork interfaces and enabled heterogeneous multiaccess capabilities (eg, the Apple iOS-based iPhone and iPad products enable "multipath transfer" feature, which combines WiFi and cellular interfaces to optimize network connection 3,4 ). Such smart multihomed devices can increase their goodput performance and quality of service (QoS) by making use of multiple paths concurrently in a heterogeneous network condition, supported by the Multipath TCP (MPTCP). 5The MPTCP is a TCP extension that enables a multihomed device to exploit multiple network interfaces for simultaneously scheduling the application data over multiple independent end-to-end available paths. 6 Figure 1 illustrates how a MPTCP-based terminal uses 2 different paths (A and B) simultaneously to communicate with an MPTCP-based application server. Such multipath transmission and bandwidth aggregation features is beneficial to system for goodput improvement, robustness enhancement, and other attractive benefits. Moreover, MPTCP preserves the regular socket APIs that are utilized by today's Internet applications. The multihomed devices can establish C...

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Proactive Multipath TCP for Seamless Handoff in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks

Cited by 39 publications

References 18 publications

On the Fidelity of NS-3 Simulations of Wireless Multipath TCP Connections

On the Fidelity of NS-3 Simulations of Wireless Multipath TCP Connections

Bagging Ensembled Perceptron Classifier for Seamless Mobility System in Heterogeneous Network

(PU)²M²: A potentially underperforming‐aware path usage management mechanism for secure MPTCP‐based multipathing services

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Proactive Multipath TCP for Seamless Handoff in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks

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On the Fidelity of NS-3 Simulations of Wireless Multipath TCP Connections

On the Fidelity of NS-3 Simulations of Wireless Multipath TCP Connections

Bagging Ensembled Perceptron Classifier for Seamless Mobility System in Heterogeneous Network

(PU)2M2: A potentially underperforming‐aware path usage management mechanism for secure MPTCP‐based multipathing services

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