This lecture takes a closer look at two of the core concepts that need to be considered when designing a multipath transport protocol: path management and packet scheduling.

Course lecture: Path management and packet scheduling

Related readings

The first article illustrates the importance of initial path selection and how information from the application and surrounding transport system can help in this selcetion. The remaining articles are focused on packet scheduling and introduces and evaluates a number of different schedulers in Multipath QUIC and Multipath TCP.

• “A NEAT Approach to Mobile Communication”, P. Hurtig et al., In Proc. of MobiArch ’17, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2017 [pdf available here]
• “Multipath Scheduling for 5G Networks: Evaluation and Outlook”, H. Wu et al., IEEE Communications Magazine, April 2021 [pdf available here].
• ”Experimental Evaluation of Multipath TCP Schedulers”, C. Paasch et al., In Proc. of the ACM Capacity Sharing Workshop (CSW ‘14), Chicago, Il, USA, August 2014 [pdf available here]
• “Low-Latency Scheduling in MPTCP”, P. Hurtig et al, In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 27, No 1, February 2019 [pdf available here]