| Authors | S. Ferlin, T. Dreibholz and Ö. Alay |
| Title | Tackling the Challenge of Bufferbloat in Multi-Path Transport Over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks |
| Afilliation | Communication Systems, , Communication Systems |
| Project(s) | The Center for Resilient Networks and Applications |
| Status | Published |
| Publication Type | Proceedings, refereed |
| Year of Publication | 2014 |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) |
| Date Published | May |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Place Published | Hong Kong/People's Republic of China |
| Abstract | Today, most of the smart phones are equipped with two network interfaces: Mobile Broadband (MBB) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Multi-path transport protocols provide increased throughput or reliability, by utilizing these interfaces simultaneously. However, multi-path transmission over networks with very different QoS characteristics is a challenge. In this paper, we studied Multi-Path TCP\~(MPTCP) in heterogeneous networks, specifically MBB networks and WLAN. We first investigate the effect of bufferbloat in MBB on MPTCP performance. Then, we propose a bufferbloat mitigation algorithm: Multi-Path Transport Bufferbloat Mitigation (MPT-BM). Using our algorithm, we conduct experiments in real operational networks. The experimental results show that MPT-BM outperforms the current MPTCP implementation by increasing the application goodput quality and decreasing MPTCP's buffer delay, jitter and buffer space requirements. |
| Citation Key | Simula.simula.2722 |