An Early Look at Multipath TCP Deployment in the Wild

Olivier Mehani; Ralph-Günther  Holz; Simone Ferlin; Roksana Boreli

doi:10.1145/2798087.2798088

An Early Look at Multipath TCP Deployment in the Wild

Olivier Mehani
, Ralph-Günther Holz
, Simone Ferlin
, Roksana Boreli

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Multipath TCP was standardised in 2013 at IETF. It promises better use of network resources of multi-homed devices for capacity aggregation or seamless fail-over capabilities. The uptake has however been rather slow. Some operating systems support MPTCP out of the box, but little is known about their deployment on the server side. We built a scanning infrastructure to search for MPTCP-capable hosts on the Internet. In this study, we used the top-1M Alexa servers to test the platform and gain insight about server support. We find that less than 0.1% of Alexa unique domains and IP addresses currently support MPTCP. Their geographic distribution is quite different from that of clients reported in other studies, with the majority of domains being in China. We also find that very few IPs actually expose multi-homing information, suggesting that these early deployments aim at providing reliability rather than capacity aggregation. We also identify some deployment issues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HotPlanet '15
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement
Editors	Pan Hui, Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Weixiong Rao
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	7–12
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3534-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2798087.2798088
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	6th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement, HotPlanet 2015 - Paris, France Duration: 7 Sept 2015 → 7 Sept 2015 Conference number: 6

Workshop

Workshop	6th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement, HotPlanet 2015
Abbreviated title	HotPlanet
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	7/09/15 → 7/09/15

Keywords

MPTCP
Deployment
Measurement
Transport
Scan

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Mehani, O, Holz, R-G, Ferlin, S & Boreli, R 2015, An Early Look at Multipath TCP Deployment in the Wild. in P Hui, F Ben Abdesslem & W Rao (eds), HotPlanet '15: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 7–12, 6th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement, HotPlanet 2015, Paris, France, 7/09/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2798087.2798088

An Early Look at Multipath TCP Deployment in the Wild. / Mehani, Olivier; Holz, Ralph-Günther ; Ferlin, Simone et al.
HotPlanet '15: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement. ed. / Pan Hui; Fehmi Ben Abdesslem; Weixiong Rao. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 7–12.

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