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DHCP Options for 0-RTT TCP Converters
draft-boucadair-tcpm-dhc-converter-03

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Mohamed Boucadair , Christian Jacquenet , Tirumaleswar Reddy.K
Last updated 2020-04-09 (Latest revision 2019-10-07)
Replaces draft-boucadair-mptcp-dhc
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Abstract

Because of the lack of important TCP extensions, e.g., Multipath TCP support at the server side, some service providers now consider a network-assisted model that relies upon the activation of a dedicated function called Transport Converters. For example, network-assisted Multipath TCP deployment models are designed to facilitate the adoption of Multipath TCP for the establishment of multi-path communications without making any assumption about the support of Multipath TCP by the remote servers. Transport Converters located in the network are responsible for establishing multi-path communications on behalf of endpoints, thereby taking advantage of Multipath TCP 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 focuses on the explicit deployment scheme where the identity of the Transport Converters is explicitly configured on connected hosts. This document specifies DHCP (IPv4 and IPv6) options to configure hosts with Converters parameters.

Authors

Mohamed Boucadair
Christian Jacquenet
Tirumaleswar Reddy.K

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