End-to-end arguments in system design
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Measuring interactions between transport protocols and middleboxes
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
An untold story of middleboxes in cellular networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
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
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
Revealing middlebox interference with tracebox
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
Communications of the ACM
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Besides the traditional routers and switches, middleboxes such as NATs, firewalls, IDS or proxies have a growing importance in many networks, notably in entreprise and wireless access networks. Many of these middleboxes modify the packets that they process. For this, they to implement (a subset of) protocols like TCP. Despite the deployment of these middleboxes, TCP continues to evolve on the endhosts and little is known about the interactions between TCP extensions and the middleboxes. In this paper, we experimentally evaluate the interference between middleboxes and the Linux TCP stack. For this, we first propose MBtest, a set of Click elements that model middlebox behavior. We use it to experimentally evaluate how three TCP extensions interact with middleboxes. We also analyzes measurements of the interference between Multipath TCP and middleboxes in fifty different networks.