Volume 7 - Issue 1
Multi-attribute Aware Path Selection Approach for Efficient MPTCP-based Data Delivery
- Jiaxin Zeng
School of Software, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
xcfzjxtt@jxnu.edu.cn
- Fenfen Ke
School of Software, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
coffee@jxnu.edu.cn
- Yi Zuo
Jiangxi innovation funds management center for small and medium-sized enterprises
long-1984@163.com
- Qinghua Liu
School of Software, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
004799@jxnu.edu.cn
- Minghe Huang
School of Software, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
huangmh0093@sina.com
- Yuanlong Cao
School of Software, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
ylcao@bupt.edu.cn
Keywords: wireless access technology, MPTCP, path selection approach, mobile device
Abstract
With the increasing diversity of wireless access technologies, and the further integration of mobile
communication and heterogeneous wireless networks, more and more mobile devices equipped with
multiple network interfaces. The mobile devices, which have integrated multi-homing technology,
can transmit data through multiple network interfaces to improve the quality of data transmission
for users. The advantages of multi-homing technology have contributed to the rapid development of
multipath protocols. Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) is an extension of the traditional
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which can take advantage of the capabilities of multiple
network interfaces to simultaneously make use of multiple paths for data transmission, aiming at improving
the performance of the data delivery. Although the multi-homing mobile devices configuring
MPTCP protocol can obtain a lot of benefits, the current MPTCP path selection mechanism is too
simple resulting in some concerns. So, a multi-attribute aware path selection approach for MPTCP
(MPTCP-MAPS) is proposed in the paper, which jointly taking the Round-Trip Time (RTT) and the
packet loss rate (Loss) of transport layer into account for efficient data delivery. MPTCP-MAPS
designs a Multi-attribute path switch Prober (MP) to enhance the efficiency of the path selection
mechanism. The results, which are gained from a closing realistic simulation topology, demonstrate
how MPTCP-MAPS’ path selection approach is superior to the current MPTCP path selection mechanism
in terms of continuity of mobile services and performance in heterogeneous wireless networks.