MultiWAN: WAN aggregation for developing region

Abstract

For rural ISPs and organizations, purchasing high-bandwidth, high-quality Internet connections is expensive, if such connections are even available. Subscribing to multiple low-capacity connections and load balancing flows across them presents an attractive alternative. However, this limits the burst rate of each flow to the capacity of the connection to which it has been bound. For example, a single file transfer could not take advantage of unused capacity on other connections. This increases flow completion times, an important metric of user-perceived performance.