Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Vertical handoffs in wireless overlay networks
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: mobile networking in the Internet
On making TCP more robust to packet reordering
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
pTCP: An End-to-End Transport Layer Protocol for Striped Connections
ICNP '02 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
The End-to-End Performance Effects of Parallel TCP Sockets on a Lossy Wide-Area Network
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Transport Level Mechanisms for Bandwidth Aggregation on Mobile Hosts
ICNP '01 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Network Protocols
Throughput models for SCTP with parallel subflows
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Unequal error protection for real-time video in mobile ad hoc networks via multi-path transport
Computer Communications
An efficient multipath structure for concurrent data transport in wireless mesh networks
Computer Communications
Performance evaluation of subflow capable SCTP
Computer Communications
Web agent supporting transport layer mobility
MATA'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications
A taxonomy and survey of SCTP research
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Currently, most battlefield mobile communication devices are equipped with multiple wireless interfaces. The main target of the multiple interfaces is to increase the communication reliability between the soldiers in the battlefield and the command center, so that if one of the interfaces fails, the other interfaces can still provide a communication path. In this case each application data stream is limited to use only one communication channel. Due to the limited and variable bandwidth of the wireless channels, as well as their lossy and break-prone nature, the performance of mobile applications can be greatly hurt. In this paper, we present a transport layer solution for aggregating the bandwidth of the available interfaces. Our solution is based on extending Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). Our choice to extend SCTP for bandwidth aggregation was motivated by its inherent support for multi-homing. The extended SCTP, which we refer to as Load Sharing-SCTP (LS-SCTP), is able to aggregate the bandwidth of all the active transmission paths between the communicating endpoints. In addition, LS-SCTP dynamically adds/drops communication paths to the aggregated paths bundle. To ensure that the aggregate connection will not stall due to the high loss rate or continuous failure of individual paths, LS-SCTP includes path monitoring and packet assignment mechanisms that distribute the packets on the paths according to their current condition. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed mechanism in providing throughput and reliability to mobile applications under battlefield conditions.