Performance evaluation of MPTCP under heterogeneous channel characteristics

Abstract

By improvements of ICT (Information and Communications Technologies), a lot of advanced high speed communication standards such as 3G (3rd generation mobile telecommunications), LTE (Long Term Evolution) and High speed WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) have been developed. Recently, most devices destined for consumer use, equip more than one communication interface based on the above high speed communication standards. For exploiting the advantages of devices employing multiple communication interfaces, several transport protocols using simultaneously multiple communication channels for one transmission purpose have been proposed. However, there are few number of evaluations relating to such multi-path transport protocols. In this paper, for clarifying the characteristics of multi-path transport protocols, we will report the evaluation results of MPTPC under heterogeneous communication characteristics.