Concurrent multipath transfer using transport layer multihoming: performance under varying bandwidth proportions
J.R. lyengar, Paul D. Amer, Randall Stewart · 2005
We have previously specified three algorithms for the stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) resulting in CMT/sub scd/ - a protocol that uses SCTP's multihoming feature for correctly transferring data between multihomed end hosts using multiple separate end-to-end paths. In this paper, we evaluate CMT/sub scd/ against AppStripe (application-striping) under uniform losses varying from 0 to 10 percent. We also present results encouraging the use of multiple paths in lossy networks such as battlefield networks. In this work, we operate under the strong assumptions that the receiver's advertised window does not constrain the sender, and that the bottleneck queues on the end-to-end paths used in CMT are independent of each other.