MPTCP Multipath Protocol Evaluation in Packet Networks

In data networks, multipath algorithms use more than one path to transport information from one source to a destination node. Even though, there are many algorithms about multipath solutions, performance evaluation in simulators and testbeds still need to be widely analyzed. The present work analyzes the MPTCP protocol performance through its implementation in NS-3 network simulator. Besides, MPTCP is compared with the TCP protocol in order to evaluate the impact of the number of nodes in the performance of each protocol. The performance metrics considered in this work are window size, jitter, and throughput. The simulation results show that MPTCP improves the throughput compared with the TCP protocol. In addition, MPTCP windows size has a better behavior and the full delivery information is achieved in less time.