Focus on Multipath TCP: Introduction, Benefits and Future Research Trends

Abstract

With the rapid development of mobile video technology and the increasing demand for online video
applications, people have higher demands on the transmission performance and user experience of
real-time Internet applications such as video. Multipath transmission is considered as an ideal solution
to improve video transmission performance and user experience quality in wireless network
environment. In recent years, the academic research on multipath transmission protocol focuses on
data scheduling, energy consumption optimization, fairness, congestion control and so on, but the
research on network security is insufficient, especially the research on the anti-damage analysis and
robustness optimization of multipath transmission. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the latest
research trends, this paper makes a beneficial exploration of the future development of end-to-end
multipath transmission over the Internet based on Multipath TCP (MPTCP).