Subject: [iccrg] Paper: On the Benefits of Applying Experimental Design to Improve Multipath TCP

From: Christoph Paasch <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 15:04:29 +0100

Hello,

I would like to point you to our recent paper:
"On the Benefits of Applying Experimental Design to Improve Multipath TCP"
Christoph Paasch, Ramin Khalili and Olivier Bonaventure. ACM CoNEXT 2013.

It is available here:
http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/publications/benefits-applying-experimental-design-improve-multipath-tcp

The paper shows that using an experimental design approach allows to have
a better overview of the performance of a protocol implementation.

Especially wrt to the TCP Evaluation Suite that is being done within the
iccrg, an experimental design approach could be usefull. 
Many factors influence the performance of TCP (capacity, delay, jitter,...)
An experimental design  allows to better explore the possible environments
by using a space-filling design, which spreads the parameter-sets equally
among the factor-space. Thus allows a thorough overview of the performance.

Our paper focusses on MPTCP, but the approach is valid to evaluate any protocol
extension/congestion control. 

Feedback is of course very welcome.

Cheers,
Christoph