Paper Info
Title
Cross-layer path management in multi-path transport protocol for mobile devices
Abstract
MPTCP is a new transport protocol that enables mobile devices to use several physical paths simultaneously through multiple network interfaces, such as WiFi and cellular. However, wireless path characteristics change frequently in mobile environments, causing challenges for MPTCP: For example, WiFi associated paths often become unavailable as devices move, since WiFi has intermittent connectivity caused by the short signal range and susceptibility to interference. In this work, we improve MPTCP to manage path usage based on the associated link status. This variant, called MPTCP-MA, uses MAC-Layer information to locally estimate path quality and connectivity. By suspending/releasing paths based on their quality, MPTCP-MA can more effectively utilize restored paths. We have implemented and deployed MPTCP-MA in Linux and Android. Our experimental results show that MPTCP-MA can efficiently utilize an intermittently available path, with Wifi throughput improvements of up to 72 percent.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/INFOCOM.2014.6848120
INFOCOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
short signal range,mobile devices,cross-layer path management,mac-layer information,interference susceptibility,mptcp-ma,radiofrequency interference,cellular radio,cellular,path quality estimation,multipath transport protocol,multipath channels,linux,wifi,path usage management,transport protocols,physical paths,telecommunication network management,access protocols,wireless path characteristics,android,wireless lan,mptcp,mobile computing,intermittent connectivity estimation,android (operating system),multiple network interfaces
Mobile computing,Wireless,Android (operating system),Multi path,Computer science,Computer network,Mobile device,Interference (wave propagation),Throughput,Distributed computing,Network interface
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0743-166X
21
0.94
References 
Authors
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yeon-sup Lim142219.31
Yung-Chih Chen241339.89
Erich M. Nahum385359.81
Don Towsley4186931951.05
Kang-Won Lee540026.74