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SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
TCP splice application layer proxy performance
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I-TCP: indirect TCP for mobile hosts
ICDCS '95 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk
Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Modeling the dynamics of network technology adoption and the role of converters
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An analysis of longitudinal TCP passive measurements
TMA'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Traffic monitoring and analysis
Opportunistic mobility with multipath TCP
MobiArch '11 Proceedings of the sixth international workshop on MobiArch
Is it still possible to extend TCP?
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
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
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Making middleboxes someone else's problem: network processing as a cloud service
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Exploring mobile/WiFi handover with multipath TCP
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Cellular networks: operations, challenges, and future design
Netmap: a novel framework for fast packet I/O
USENIX ATC'12 Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
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Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is a major modification to TCP that enables a single transport connection to use multiple paths. Smartphones can benefit from MPTCP by using both WiFi and 3G/4G interfaces for their data-traffic, potentially improving the performance and allowing mobility through vertical handover. However, MPTCP requires a modification of the end hosts, thus suffers from the chicken-and-egg deployment problem. A global deployment of MPTCP is therefore expected to take years. To increase the incentives for clients and servers to upgrade their system, we propose MiMBox an efficient protocol converter that can translate MPTCP into TCP and vice versa to provide multipath benefits to early adopters of MPTCP. MiMBox is application agnostic and can be used transparently or explicitly. Moreover, a close attention was paid to the implementation's design to achieve good forwarding performance. MiMBox is implemented entirely in the Linux kernel so that it is able to more easily circumvent the bottlenecks of a user-space implementation. Measurements show that we always outperform user-space solutions and that the performance is close to plain IP packet forwarding.