An end-to-end approach to host mobility
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Concurrent multipath transfer using SCTP multihoming over independent end-to-end paths
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A first look at traffic on smartphones
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Design, implementation and evaluation of congestion control for multipath TCP
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Saving mobile device energy with multipath TCP
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Opportunistic mobility with multipath TCP
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How hard can it be? designing and implementing a deployable multipath TCP
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
A first look at multi-access connectivity for mobile networking
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How voice calls affect data in operational LTE networks
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Binder: a system to aggregate multiple internet gateways in community networks
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A measurement-based study of MultiPath TCP performance over wireless networks
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On the benefits of applying experimental design to improve multipath TCP
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Communications of the ACM
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Mobile Operators see an unending growth of data traffic generated by their customers on their mobile data networks. As the operators start to have a hard time carrying all this traffic over 3G or 4G networks, offloading to WiFi is being considered. Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is an evolution of TCP that allows the simultaneous use of multiple interfaces for a single connection while still presenting a standard TCP socket API to the application. The protocol specification of Multipath TCP has foreseen the different building blocks to allow transparent handover from WiFi to 3G back and forth. In this paper we experimentally prove the feasibility of using MPTCP for mobile/WiFi handover in the current Internet. Our experiments run over real WiFi/3G networks and use our Linux kernel implementation of MPTCP that we enhanced to better support handover. We analyze MPTCP's energy consumption and handover performance in various operational modes. We find that MPTCP enables smooth handovers offering reasonable performance even for very demanding applications such as VoIP. Finally, our experiments showed that lost MPTCP control signals can adversely affect handover performance; we implement and test a simple but effective solution to this issue.