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RADIUS Extensions for Network-Assisted Multipath TCP (MPTCP)
draft-boucadair-mptcp-radius-05

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Mohamed Boucadair , Christian Jacquenet
Last updated 2017-10-09
Replaced by draft-boucadair-radext-tcpm-converter
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Abstract

Because of the lack of Multipath TCP (MPTCP) support at the server side, some service providers now consider a network-assisted model that relies upon the activation of a dedicated function called MPTCP Conversion Point (MCP). Network-assisted MPTCP deployment models are designed to facilitate the adoption of MPTCP for the establishment of multi-path communications without making any assumption about the support of MPTCP by the communicating peers. MCPs located in the network are responsible for establishing multi-path communications on behalf of endpoints, thereby taking advantage of MPTCP capabilities to achieve different goals that include (but are not limited to) optimization of resource usage (e.g., bandwidth aggregation), of resiliency (e.g., primary/backup communication paths), and traffic offload management. This document specifies a new Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) attributes that carry the IP addresses that will be returned to authorized users to reach one or multiple MCPs.

Authors

Mohamed Boucadair
Christian Jacquenet

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