Towards a Multipath TCP Aware Load Balancer
Simon Liénardy, Benoît Donnet · 2016
Multipath TCP has been recently introduced in order to allow a better resource consumption and user quality-of-experience. This is achieved by allowing a connection between two hosts through multiple subflows. However, with the rise of middleboxes and inherent Internet ossification, the large-scale deployment of this TCP extension is difficult. In particular, a load balancer at the entry point of a data center may forward subflows to different servers, cancelling so the advantages of Multipath TCP.