2014/12/26 by Lily Minear, Minear, Lily, Eric Zhang +1
Computer Science · Engineering · #Caching and Content Delivery #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Green IT and Sustainability #Network Traffic and Congestion Control #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.7912
4 pages
arxiv created 2014/12/26 · openalex publication_date 2014/12/26 · arxiv updated 2014/12/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Multiple accesses are common for most mobile devices today. This technological advance opens up a new design space for improving the communication performance of mobile devices. Multipath TCP is a TCP extension that enables using multiple network paths between two end systems for a single TCP connection, increasing performance and reliability. Meanwhile, when operating multiple active interfaces, multipath-TCP also consumes substantial more power and drains out bettery faster than using one interface. Thus, enabling Multipath TCP on mobile devices brings in new challenges. In this paper, we theoretically analyze the underlying design choices given by the Multipath TCP. In particular, we theoretically formulate the rela- tion between performance (throughput) and energy consumption for Multipath TCP. We find that sometime the throughput and energy consumption can be concurrently improved.