2013/09/30 by Karim Habak, Khaled A. Harras, Moustafa Youssef
Computer Science · #Bandwidth (computing) #Caching and Content Delivery #Computer network #Computer science #Distributed computing #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies #Software deployment #Wireless Networks and Protocols #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2015.08.039
published as Computer Networks 92P1 (December 2015) 168-188
openalex publication_date 2015/09/11 · arxiv created 2015/11/25 · arxiv updated 2015/11/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The widespread deployment of various networking technologies, coupled with the exponential increase in end- user data demand, have led to the proliferation of multi-homed, or multi-interface enabled, devices. These trends drove researchers to investigate a wide spectrum of solutions, at different layers of the protocol stack, that utilize available interfaces in such devices by aggregating their bandwidth. In this survey paper, we provide an overview and examine the evolution of bandwidth aggregation solutions over time. We begin by describing the bandwidth aggregation problem. We investigate the common features of proposed bandwidth aggregation systems and break them down into two major categories: layer-dependent and layer-independent features. Afterwards, we discuss the evolution trends in the literature and discuss some open challenges requiring further research. We end the survey with a brief presentation of related work in tangential research areas.