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Multipath TCP (MPTCP) enables terminals utilizing multiple interfaces for data transmission simultaneously, which provides better performance and brings many benefits. However, using multiple paths brings some new challenges. The asymmetric parameters among different subflows may cause the out-of-order problem and load imbalance problem, especially in wireless network which has more packet loss. Thus it will significantly degrade the performance of MPTCP. In this paper, we propose a Receive Buffer Pre-division based flow control mechanism (RBP) for MPTCP. RBP divides receive buffer according to the prediction of receive buffer occupancy of each subflow, and controls the data transmission on each subflow using the divided buffer and the number of out-of-order packets, which can significantly improve the performance of MPTCP. We use the NS-3 simulations to verify the performance of our scheme, and the simulation results show that RBP algorithm can significantly increase the global throughput of MPTCP.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61379129 and No. 61671420, the Fund of Science and Technology on Communication Networks Laboratory under Grant No. KX162600024, Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS under Grant No. 2016394, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
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Han, J., Xue, K., Yue, H., Hong, P., Yu, N., Li, F. (2018). Receive Buffer Pre-division Based Flow Control for MPTCP. In: Zhu, L., Zhong, S. (eds) Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks. MSN 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 747. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8890-2_2
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