A Survey on Congestion Control and Scheduling for Multipath TCP: Machine Learning vs Classical Approaches

Multipath TCP (MPTCP) has been widely used as an efficient way for communication in many applications. Data centers, smartphones, and network operators use MPTCP to balance the traffic in a network efficiently. MPTCP is an extension of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), which provides multiple paths, leading to higher throughput and low latency. Although MPTCP has shown better performance than TCP in many applications, it has its own challenges. The network can become congested due to heavy traffic in the multiple paths (subflows) if the subflow rates are not determined correctly. Moreover, communication latency can occur if the packets are not scheduled correctly between the subflows. This paper reviews techniques to solve the above-mentioned problems based on two main approaches; non data-driven (classical) and data-driven (Machine Learning) approaches. This paper compares these two approaches and highlights their strengths and weaknesses with a view to motivating future researchers in this exciting area of machine learning for communications. This paper also provides details on the simulation of MPTCP and its implementations in real environments.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure

Applying Techniques of Application Layer Striping to Improve the Utilization of a Single TCP Connection

The Transport Control Protocol (TCP) provides robust consumption of network bandwidth when multiple connections are active across a network link with a high-bandwidth delay product. Yet individual TCP connections can fall short of consuming available bandwidth. Application layer striping allows a single application to open multiple connections to one or more endpoints and parcel or reconstitute data across each link. The benefits of applying this technique to the network transport layer would allow more efficient consumption of network resources. The throughput characteristics could also demonstrate more normalized adjustments based on network events, providing a smooth transmission stream for time-sensitive information like streaming media applications. We examine a design which applies this technique to implement a composite stream with a configurable number of virtual streams with a sender-side only modification. We provide a background survey of existing approaches to this problem, and analysis of our approach

高速無線通信を含む多様なネットワークのための高速TCP/IPデータ転送技術の研究

早大学位記番号:新7791早稲田大

Reducing Internet Latency : A Survey of Techniques and their Merit

Bob Briscoe, Anna Brunstrom, Andreas Petlund, David Hayes, David Ros, Ing-Jyh Tsang, Stein Gjessing, Gorry Fairhurst, Carsten Griwodz, Michael WelzlPeer reviewedPreprin

Explicit congestion control algorithms for time-varying capacity media

Tese de doutoramento. Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 200