The Design of Mobile Concurrent Multipath Transfer in Multihomed Wireless Mobile Networks

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

“…-Application-Assisted Aggregation: MCMT is an extension to the SCTP protocol that uses an application-assisted aggregation approach [58]. This extension utilizes the multi-streaming feature in the SCTP protocol to solve the previously mentioned challenges.…”

“…Middlewares MuniSocket [25] Intentional Networking [26] Transport Layer Extending Widely Deployed Protocols pTCP [51] mTCP [33] cTCP [56] MPCubic [47] Le et al [49] DRePaS [54] MPTCP [39] Diop et al [41] MPTCP [34] E2EMPT [45] MPTCP [40] ATLB [42] cmpTCP [43] Wischik et al [35] MPSCTP [36] AMTCP [46] BMC [38] Han et al [37] Paasch et al [44] GMCC-Coop [55] SC-MPTCP [53] Utilizing Existing Support of Multi-homing MCMT [58] LS-SCTP [59] IPCC-SCTP [65] W-SCTP [62] FPS [64] MPSCTP [66] SCTP [60] CMT [67] Cross-Layer FPS [63] loss only via timeout at the sender resulting in severe congestion window drops. Therefore, these solutions implement packet loss detection techniques at the network layer to avoid timing out on the lost packets.…”

“…-Implicit estimation: Other systems depend on their congestion control mechanisms to keep the transmission rate at each interface close to its available bandwidth [55,59,65,51,69,43,67,56,96,61,58,40,45,35,97,98,44,66,46,47,49,41,36,34,39,53,54]. Although they adopt different congestion control mechanisms (Section 2.2), they rely on the same concepts to avoid explicitly estimating the available bandwidth for each interface.…”

“…Different bandwidth aggregation solutions, however, estimate this delay in different forms based on their main purpose of estimating it. For instance, many solutions, specially transport layer protocols, estimate the round trip time (RTT) as the average time difference between sending a packet and receiving its acknowledgement and use it to calculate the retransmission timeout (RTO) [25,76,86,63,64,59,65,51,69,43,67,56,96,61,58,40,45,35,97,98,44,66,55,47,46,49,41,36,34,39,53,54]. On the other hand, to take the delay into account while distributing traffic across interfaces, Phatak et al argue that it is sufficient to calculate the differences in latency between the interfaces, not the actual latency of each interface [71].…”

Performance Evaluation of Concurrent Multipath Video Streaming in Multihomed Mobile Networks

“…The authors of [24,25] proposed the use of multiple sending and receiving buffers to resolve the issue of receiver buffer blocking in cmt-SCTP. Yuan et al [24] also introduced the facility to differentiate subflows within an SCTP association in terms of quality of service (QoS) requirements, whilst in [25,26] the use of cmt-SCTP in wireless environments was investigated. mCMT [26], a cmt-SCTP variant for use in wireless networks, employed multiple sending and receiving buffers in a path-orientated multistreaming scheme, which also incorporated the Media Independent Handover (MIH) scheme [27] for individual host mobility support.…”