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Multipath TCP: an overview

Multipath TCP: an overview

Posted Mar 28, 2013 17:44 UTC (Thu) by christophpaasch (subscriber, #54567)
In reply to: Multipath TCP: an overview by raven667
Parent article: Multipath TCP: an overview

Does your friend you are mentioning may share the references of his claims?

MPTCP has no issues with head-of-line blocking, because the receive-window is not on a per-subflow level but rather on the data-level [1].

I don't see, how MPTCP could cause extreme congestion, because the coupled congestion control makes sure that MPTCP is fair to other flows across shared bottlenecks [2].

Cheers,
Christoph

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6824/
[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6356/


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