Title :
R-M/TCP: protocol for reliable multi-path transport over the Internet
Author :
Rojviboonchai, Kultida ; Osuga, Toru ; Aida, Hitoshi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Frontier Informatics, Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We extend the previous work on Multi-path Transmission Control Protocol (M/TCP) and propose Rate-based M/TCP (R-M/TCP) for improving reliability and performance of the communications over the Internet. The protocol has been designed as one of TCP options, thus being backward compatible to the standard TCP. It does not require any changes in network infrastructure, but do require some modifications at the end hosts to establish multiple paths. Congestion control in R-M/TCP is performed in a rate-based and loss-avoidance manner. It attempts to estimate the available bandwidth and the queue length of the used routes in order to fully utilize the bandwidth resources. Experimental results show performance advantages of R-M/TCP beyond TCP Reno in the scenario that characteristics in terms of delay and bandwidth of each route are different.
Keywords :
Internet; computer network reliability; multipath channels; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; Internet; Multi-path Transmission Control Protocol; R-M/TCP protocol; congestion control; reliable multipath transport; Bandwidth; Communication system control; Delay; Fault tolerance; Internet; Load management; Scheduling algorithm; Throughput; Traffic control; Transport protocols;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2005. AINA 2005. 19th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2249-1
DOI :
10.1109/AINA.2005.289