Multipath TCP : An annotated bibliography

Multipath TCP[31] is a recent TCP extension being developed within the MPTCP workgroup of the Internet Engineering Task Force. Multipath TCP enables a TCP connection to exchange data over different interfaces. This extension has recently received a growing interest from both researchers who publish a growing number of articles on the topic and the vendors since Apple has decided to use Multipath TCP on its smartphones and tablets to support the Siri voice recognition application. This document assumes that the reader is familiar with Multipath TCP. Tutorials on this TCP extension may be found in [61, 70, 15]. This document gathers an as complete as possible bibliography of the IETF documents and scientific publications related to Multipath TCP. It is maintained at http://github.com/obonaventure/ mptcp-bib. Comments, suggestions and contributions are more than welcome. The document is organised as follows. We first discuss in section 2 the publications that propose protocol extensions. Section 3 compares the different congestion control proposals. Section 4 analyses the different use cases for Multipath TCP and summarises the existing work. Section 5 lists that various software tools that can be used by Multipath TCP users and researchers.