MPT Network Layer Multipath Library
draft-lencse-tsvwg-mpt-10
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| Authors | Gábor Lencse , Szabolcs Szilagyi , Ferenc Fejes , Marius Georgescu | ||
| Last updated | 2022-12-19 (Latest revision 2022-06-17) | ||
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Abstract
Although several contemporary IT devices have multiple network interfaces, communication sessions are restricted to use only one of them at a time due to the design of the TCP/IP protocol stack: the communication endpoint is identified by an IP address and a TCP or UDP port number. The simultaneous use of these multiple interfaces for a communication session would improve user experience through higher throughput and improved resilience to network failures. MPT is a network layer multipath solution, which provides a tunnel over multiple paths using the GRE-in-UDP specification, thus being different from both MPTCP and Huawei's GRE Tunnel Bonding Protocol. MPT can also be used as a router, routing the packets among several networks between the tunnel endpoints, thus establishing a multipath site-to-site connection. The version of tunnel IP and the version of path IP are independent from each other, therefore MPT can also be used for IPv6 transition purposes.
Authors
Gábor Lencse
Szabolcs Szilagyi
Ferenc Fejes
Marius Georgescu
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