This lecture provides an introduction to multi-access solutions. What multi-access is, why it is useful and how it can be realized.

Course lecture: Introduction

Related readings

The first article provides a comprehensive survey of multi-access solutions and how it can be realized at different protocol layers. The second artice provides an introduction to Multipath TCP.

• “Multipath Transmission for the Internet: A Survey”, M. Li et al., In IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 18(4), 2016, [pdf available here]
• “An Overview of Multipath TCP”, O. Bonaventure et al., In ;login: The USENIX Magazine, Vol. 37(5), 2012, [pdf available here]