TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Experimental
Pages: 64
Abstract: TCP/IP communication is currently restricted to a single path per connection, yet multiple paths often exist between peers. The simultaneous use of these multiple paths for a TCP/IP session would improve resource usage within the network and, thus, improve user experience through higher throughput and improved resilience to network failure. Multipath TCP provides the ability to simultaneously use multiple paths between peers. This document presents a set of extensions to traditional TCP to support multipath operation. The protocol offers the same type of service to applications as TCP (i.e., reliable bytestream), and it provides the components necessary to establish and use multiple TCP flows across potentially disjoint paths. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Status Note: Experimental
DOI: 10.17487/RFC6824
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6824
Author(s): Alan Ford
Costin Raiciu
Mark J. Handley
Olivier Bonaventure

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NIST FIPS 180-3 [Withdrawn]
IETF RFC 793 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6182 [Active*]

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Scharf, M. and A. Ford, "MPTCP Application Interface Considerations", Work in Progress, October 2012. EXTERNAL
Handley, M., Paxson, V., and C. Kreibich, "Network Intrusion Detection: Evasion, Traffic Normalization, and End-to-End Protocol Semantics", Usenix Security 2001, 2001, < http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/full_papers/ handley/handley.pdf >. EXTERNAL
Ramaiah, A., "TCP option space extension" , Work in Progress, March 2012. EXTERNAL
Raiciu, C., Paasch, C., Barre, S., Ford, A., Honda, M., Duchene, F., Bonaventure, O., and M. Handley, "How Hard Can It Be? Designing and Implementing a Deployable Multipath TCP", Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation 012, 2012, < https://www.usenix.org/conference/ nsdi12/how-hard-can-it-be-designing-and-implementing- deployable-multipath-tcp >. EXTERNAL
Gont, F., "Survey of Security Hardening Methods for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Implementations", Work in Progress, March 2012. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1122 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1323 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 1918 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2018 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2104 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 2979 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2992 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3022 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3135 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3168 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4086 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5226 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 5681 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6181 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6234 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6356 [Active*]

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IETF RFC 6897 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6978 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7368 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7414 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7416 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7766 [Active*]