Multipath TCP: an overview [LWN.net]

Multipath TCP: an overview

Posted Mar 27, 2013 8:54 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Multipath TCP: an overview by dlang
Parent article: Multipath TCP: an overview

> I'm actually a bit surprised that they didn't layer it on top of UDP.

I guess this saves them re-implementing congestion control, which is insanely complicated http://lwn.net/Articles/128681/

Multipath TCP is not really "layered" in the usual sense since it needs one native TCP connection for every stream. It looks a bit like... a "plugin" :-)

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