Boosting NEMO with Multi-Path TCP

Pratibha Mitharwal (1) , Christophe Lohr (2) , Annie Gravey (1)

1 ADOPNET - Advanced technologies for operated networks
2 Lab-STICC_TB_CID_IHSEV

This paper is focused on boosting network mobility Basic support protocol (NEMO) with the help of existing Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP). In this paper, the network mobility is studied in context of vehicles. The current NEMO relies on tunneling in order to use multiple available interfaces on a vehicle but does not reach the goal to provide optimum multi-homing benefits because it is unable to balance the traffic over available network interfaces. Moreover in NEMO, the nodes behind the mobile router cannot participate in multi-homing as the mobile router installed on the vehicle makes the mobility transparent to the nodes. In this paper, we propose to combine NEMO with MPTCP which enables the host nodes to participate in mobility and multi-homing and thus improving throughput, handover performance and avoiding excess tunneling.

Mots clés: Mobile networks; Multipath transport protocols; MPTCP; NEMO

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Pratibha Mitharwal, Christophe Lohr, Annie Gravey. Boosting NEMO with Multi-Path TCP. NoF 2015 : 6th International Conference On Network of the Future, Sep 2015, Montreal, Canada. pp.1 - 7, ⟨10.1109/NOF.2015.7333299⟩. ⟨hal-01247509⟩