Multipath TCP Tutorials
Many scientific articles and IETF documents have been published on Multipath TCP. A network engineer, researcher or student who wants to learn Multipath TCP will probable start from a search engine or Wikipedia. A sample result is provided below.
The Multipath TCP page on Wikipedia provides some pointers, but this is probably not the simplest starting point to learn Multipath TCP. Fortunately, several tutorial articles that describe the basic principles of this TCP extension have been published.
One of the first tutorial articles is An overview of Multipath TCP that was published in USENIX login; in May 2012 [BHR12]. This article provides a basic overview of some of the principles of Multipath TCP.
The second article is simply entitled Multipath TCP and appeared in Communications of the ACM in 2014 [PB14]. It provides a more detailed overview of the protocols and some of its use cases. This is probably the most complete tutorial article on Multipath TCP.
If you prefer to listen to video tutorials instead of reading articles, several of them have been posted on youtube.
A long tutorial on the Multipath TCP protocol was given by Olivier Bonaventure at IETF’87 in Berlinin August 2013.
Christoph Paasch gave a shorter Multipath TCP tutorial earlier during FOSDEM’13 in Brussels.
Earlier, Costin Raiciu and Christoph Paasch gave a one hour Google Research talk on the design of the protocol and several use cases.
| [BHR12] | O. Bonaventure, M. Handley, and C. Raiciu. An Overview of Multipath TCP. Usenix ;login: magazine, October 2012. |
| [PB14] | Christoph Paasch and Olivier Bonaventure. Multipath tcp. Commun. ACM, 57(4):51–57, April 2014. URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2578901, doi:10.1145/2578901. |