Internet Connection Splitting: What’s Old is New Again
summary
Emulation study uses TCNETM and a novel split-throughput heuristic to estimate PEP gains across 150 emulations covering an estimated 8,000 split settings. Key claims: modern BBR (v2/ v3) regresses to being loss-sensitive and in many scenarios gains throughput from connection splitting where TCP Cubic did not; QUIC implementations (user-space) show wide behavioral variance so QUIC implementations vary and cannot be transparently split, so the paper relies on a heuristic rather than an explicit splitter; code and heatmaps are published.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:43Modern protocols and limits
- 3:28Measurement study design
- 5:31BBR versions and benefits
- 7:58Estimating split throughput
- 8:41Network paths that benefit
- 10:05Congestion control schemes
- 11:33Quick implementations
- 12:59Takeaways and future work
- 13:41Summary
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