MPMTP-AR: Multipath Message Transport Protocol Based on Application-Level Relay

• Shaowei Liu,
• Weimin Lei,
• Wei Zhang,
• Xiaoshi Song,

Vol. 11, No. 3, March 30, 2017
10.3837/tiis.2017.03.009, Download Paper (Free):

• Transport protocol
• multipath transport
• overlay network
• reliable data delivery
• Congestion Control

Abstract

Recent advancements in network infrastructures provide increased opportunities to support data delivery over multiple paths. Compared with multi-homing scenario, overlay network is regarded as an effective way to construct multiple paths between end devices without any change on the underlying network. Exploiting multipath characteristics has been explored for TCP with multi-homing device, but the corresponding exploration with overlay network has not been studied in detail yet. Motivated by improving quality of experience (QoE) for reliable data delivery, we propose a multipath message transport protocol based on application level relay (MPMTP-AR). MPMTP-AR proposes mechanisms and algorithms to support basic operations of multipath transmission. Dynamic feedback provides a foundation to distribute reasonable load to each path. Common source decrease (CSD) takes the load weight of the path with congestion into consideration to adjust congestion window. MPMTP-AR uses two-level sending buffer to ensure independence between paths and utilizes two-level receiving buffer to improve queuing performance. Finally, the MPMTP-AR is implemented on the Linux platform and evaluated by comprehensive experiments.

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