Exploiting the power of multiplicity: a holistic survey of network-layer multipath

• Main Authors: Qadir, Junaid, Ali, Anwaar, Yau, Alvin Kok-Lim *, Arjuna Sathiaseelan ,, Crowcroft, Jon
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2015
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/303/1/NLMultipathing_v10b.pdf; http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/303/; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7152820&isnumber=7331734

The Internet is inherently a multipath network: For an underlying network with only a single path, connecting various nodes would have been debilitatingly fragile. Unfortunately, traditional Internet technologies have been designed around the restrictive assumption of a single working path between a...