Primary Path Effect in Multi-Path TCP
Subhrendu Chattopadhyay, Sukumar Nandi, Samar Shailendra, Sandip Chakraborty · 2017
This poster provides an in-depth analysis of the primary path effect in Multi-path TCP using thorough experimentation over a realistic network setup. We observe the impact of various primary path parameters, like bandwidth, delay and loss, over the end-to-end performance. It is shown that under certain circumstances overall network performance can be improved by more than 50% with proper primary path selection. This study may drive the research community towards the design of new segment scheduling algorithms considering the effect of primary path selection over Multi-path TCP.