Paper Info
Title
Tackling the challenge of bufferbloat in Multi-Path Transport over heterogeneous wireless networks
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/IWQoS.2014.6914310
Quality of Service
Keywords
Field
DocType
broadband networks,mobile radio,network interfaces,quality of service,telecommunication network reliability,transport protocols,wireless LAN,MBB,MPT-BM,MPTCP,QoS characteristics,WLAN,buffer space requirements,bufferbloat mitigation algorithm,heterogeneous wireless networks,jitter,mobile broadband,multipath TCP,multipath transmission,multipath transport bufferbloat mitigation,multipath transport protocols,network interfaces,operational networks,reliability,smart phones,wireless local area network
Wireless network,Bufferbloat,Computer science,Computer network,Quality of service,Wi-Fi,Heterogeneous network,Goodput,Throughput,Network interface
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.59
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simone Ferlin Oliveira1201.29
Thomas Dreibholz2292.60
Özgü Alay324730.68
Ferlin-Oliveira, S.470.59