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An ns-3 MPTCP Implementation

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Multipath TCP (MPTCP) achieves greater throughput by sending packets from a single byte stream across multiple interfaces and thus, potentially exploits multiple available network paths. This allows end hosts to aggregate bandwidth and network resources. Network simulators such as ns-3 [1] provide researchers with a convenient tool to evaluate protocols and architectures and their importance can not be overemphasized. There are currently 3 existing implementations of MPTCP in ns-3. We evaluate these implementations and find that they lack several key features and are therefore, inadequate for furthering research. We implement MPTCP in ns-3-dev (Developer’s version) and introduce multiple path managers namely default, ndiffports and fullmesh creating an MPTCP patch for ns-3 [2]. The simulation results show improvements in throughput and Flow Completion Times (FCTs) in comparison with previous work. Our implementation [3] is compatible with the current version (ns-3.29).

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We would like to thank Matthieu Coudron for valuable discussions and assistance in navigating through the ns-3 development effort.

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  1. Electrical Engineering Department, Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

    Kashif Nadeem & Tariq M. Jadoon

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Nadeem, K., Jadoon, T.M. (2019). An ns-3 MPTCP Implementation. In: Duong, T., Vo, NS., Phan, V. (eds) Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Systems. Qshine 2018. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 272. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14413-5_4

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