Research Article
Secure Multipath Transport For Legacy Internet Applications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.BROADNETS2009.7186, author={Andrei Gurtov and Tatiana Polishchuk}, title={Secure Multipath Transport For Legacy Internet Applications}, proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={BROADNETS}, year={2009}, month={11}, keywords={Internet HIP multipath routing goodput cross-traffic}, doi={10.4108/ICST.BROADNETS2009.7186} }- Andrei Gurtov
Tatiana Polishchuk
Year: 2009
Secure Multipath Transport For Legacy Internet Applications
BROADNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.BROADNETS2009.7186
Abstract
Multi-interface mobile devices and multihomed residential Internet connections are becoming commonplace. However, standard transport protocols TCP and SCTP are unable to take advantage of several available paths so that the application using a single transport connection would receive the aggregate bandwidth of all paths. Multihoming and advanced security features make the Host Identity Protocol a good candidate to provide multipath data delivery. In this paper, we design and implement a multipath scheduler that distributes the incoming traffic among multiple available paths. Using Fastest Path First scheduling, packets from a single TCP connection could be spread to multiple paths with no reordering. Our simulations confirm effectiveness and TCP-friendliness of multipath transfer for a range of path bandwidths and in the presence of cross-traffic.
