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SCTP-based Transport Protocols for Concurrent Multipath Transfer

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Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

Pages 2969 - 2974

https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2007.550

Published: 01 March 2007 Publication History

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The growing availability of multiple network interfaces on mobile devices makes concurrent multipath transfer an appealing candidate to satisfy the ever increasing user demand for bandwidth. As of today, the only transport protocol supporting multihoming is the stream control transmission protocol (SCTP); yet, SCTP can only exploit at most one of the available paths at any given time. This paper introduces sender-based packet pair SCTP (SBPP-SCTP) and westwood SCTP (W-SCTP), which add concurrent multipath support to the original SCTP. The two protocols are implemented on Linux and their performance is assessed on an experimental testbed emulating different wireless-channel bandwidth and delay conditions.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297280.3300180
Di L(2013)Isomerism multiple-path routing algorithm of intelligent terminalsProceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent Computing Theories and Technology10.1007/978-3-642-39482-9_43(373-381)Online publication date: 28-Jul-2013
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Yang WLi HLi FWu QWu JHelmy AMueller PZhang Y(2010)RPSProceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference10.1145/1815396.1815612(944-948)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2010
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Budzisz ŁFerrús RBrunstrom AGrinnemo KFracchia RGalante GCasadevall F(2008)Towards transport-layer mobilityComputer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2007.12.01431:5(980-998)Online publication date: 25-Mar-2008
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