{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2934912463","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3297663.3310295","title":"Performance Evaluation of Multi-Path TCP for Data Center and Cloud Workloads","display_name":"Performance Evaluation of Multi-Path TCP for Data Center and Cloud Workloads","publication_year":2019,"publication_date":"2019-04-04","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2934912463","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3297663.3310295","mag":"2934912463"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/3297663.3310295","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3297663.3310295","pdf_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3297663.3310295","source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3297663.3310295","any_repository_has_fulltext":null},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5066044728","display_name":"Lucas Chaufournier","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I177605424","display_name":"Amherst College","ror":"https://ror.org/028vqfs63","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I177605424"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I24603500","display_name":"University of Massachusetts Amherst","ror":"https://ror.org/0072zz521","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I24603500"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Lucas Chaufournier","raw_affiliation_strings":["UMass. Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"UMass. Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I177605424","https://openalex.org/I24603500"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5002226825","display_name":"Ahmed Ali-Eldin","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2774-9284"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I177605424","display_name":"Amherst College","ror":"https://ror.org/028vqfs63","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I177605424"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I24603500","display_name":"University of Massachusetts Amherst","ror":"https://ror.org/0072zz521","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I24603500"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Ahmed Ali-Eldin","raw_affiliation_strings":["UMass, Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"UMass, Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I177605424","https://openalex.org/I24603500"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100718220","display_name":"Prateek Sharma","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5739-7481"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210119109","display_name":"Indiana University Bloomington","ror":"https://ror.org/02k40bc56","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210119109","https://openalex.org/I592451"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Prateek Sharma","raw_affiliation_strings":["Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210119109"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5032939724","display_name":"Prashant Shenoy","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5435-1901"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I24603500","display_name":"University of Massachusetts Amherst","ror":"https://ror.org/0072zz521","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I24603500"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I177605424","display_name":"Amherst College","ror":"https://ror.org/028vqfs63","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I177605424"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Prashant Shenoy","raw_affiliation_strings":["UMass, Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"UMass, Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I177605424","https://openalex.org/I24603500"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5036683370","display_name":"Don Towsley","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7808-7375"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I177605424","display_name":"Amherst College","ror":"https://ror.org/028vqfs63","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I177605424"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I24603500","display_name":"University of Massachusetts Amherst","ror":"https://ror.org/0072zz521","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I24603500"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Don Towsley","raw_affiliation_strings":["UMass, Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"UMass, Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I177605424","https://openalex.org/I24603500"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":5,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5066044728"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I177605424","https://openalex.org/I24603500"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":3.1644,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":16,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.92869498,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":98},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"13","last_page":"24"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10101","display_name":"Cloud Computing and Resource Management","score":0.9997000098228455,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10101","display_name":"Cloud Computing and Resource Management","score":0.9997000098228455,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10138","display_name":"Network Traffic and Congestion Control","score":0.9997000098228455,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10714","display_name":"Software-Defined Networks and 5G","score":0.9997000098228455,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/cloud-computing","display_name":"Cloud computing","score":0.8182661533355713},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.8168535232543945},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-network","display_name":"Computer network","score":0.5662972927093506},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/data-center","display_name":"Data center","score":0.5314667820930481},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/tcp-tuning","display_name":"TCP tuning","score":0.5247989892959595},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/distributed-computing","display_name":"Distributed computing","score":0.47791796922683716},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/network-congestion","display_name":"Network congestion","score":0.42208701372146606},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/operating-system","display_name":"Operating system","score":0.16146722435951233}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C79974875","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483639","display_name":"Cloud computing","level":2,"score":0.8182661533355713},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.8168535232543945},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31258907","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1301371","display_name":"Computer network","level":1,"score":0.5662972927093506},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C153740404","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q671224","display_name":"Data center","level":2,"score":0.5314667820930481},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C120837960","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7669763","display_name":"TCP tuning","level":4,"score":0.5247989892959595},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C120314980","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180634","display_name":"Distributed computing","level":1,"score":0.47791796922683716},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C195563490","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180368","display_name":"Network congestion","level":3,"score":0.42208701372146606},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111919701","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9135","display_name":"Operating system","level":1,"score":0.16146722435951233},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C158379750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214111","display_name":"Network packet","level":2,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1145/3297663.3310295","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3297663.3310295","pdf_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3297663.3310295","source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/3297663.3310295","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3297663.3310295","pdf_url":"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3297663.3310295","source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G2235110043","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"1763834","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306076","funder_display_name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G4686544717","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"1413998","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306076","funder_display_name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G5739655505","display_name":"II-New: A Programmable Data-Driven Testbed for Sustainable Buildings Research","funder_award_id":"1405826","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306076","funder_display_name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G6606737073","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"1802523","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306076","funder_display_name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G7616282748","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"1836752","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306076","funder_display_name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G8290832992","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"CNS-1413998","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306076","funder_display_name":"National Science Foundation"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306076","display_name":"National Science Foundation","ror":"https://ror.org/021nxhr62"}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2934912463.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2934912463.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":57,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W95608104","https://openalex.org/W206379916","https://openalex.org/W1515106148","https://openalex.org/W1655431917","https://openalex.org/W1699100222","https://openalex.org/W1716229707","https://openalex.org/W1746258828","https://openalex.org/W1823805418","https://openalex.org/W1936269000","https://openalex.org/W1985229168","https://openalex.org/W1988150362","https://openalex.org/W1988730626","https://openalex.org/W2040340473","https://openalex.org/W2051619378","https://openalex.org/W2055561332","https://openalex.org/W2060386744","https://openalex.org/W2064389266","https://openalex.org/W2064578521","https://openalex.org/W2065831914","https://openalex.org/W2080835330","https://openalex.org/W2089641163","https://openalex.org/W2102369238","https://openalex.org/W2109055312","https://openalex.org/W2111355820","https://openalex.org/W2111944885","https://openalex.org/W2118442492","https://openalex.org/W2126969025","https://openalex.org/W2129386480","https://openalex.org/W2129542763","https://openalex.org/W2130531694","https://openalex.org/W2132404093","https://openalex.org/W2134889667","https://openalex.org/W2136375391","https://openalex.org/W2136850962","https://openalex.org/W2142480021","https://openalex.org/W2151469723","https://openalex.org/W2157990152","https://openalex.org/W2164740236","https://openalex.org/W2168595508","https://openalex.org/W2179500942","https://openalex.org/W2283584307","https://openalex.org/W2411835995","https://openalex.org/W2468296714","https://openalex.org/W2480649850","https://openalex.org/W2558881939","https://openalex.org/W2605280586","https://openalex.org/W2763218808","https://openalex.org/W3158404582","https://openalex.org/W3160434771","https://openalex.org/W3161886301","https://openalex.org/W4233762780","https://openalex.org/W4234682775","https://openalex.org/W4237515752","https://openalex.org/W4242648275","https://openalex.org/W4249923717","https://openalex.org/W4254522945","https://openalex.org/W4285719527"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2089689241","https://openalex.org/W2031586449","https://openalex.org/W3128037105","https://openalex.org/W2378970702","https://openalex.org/W2361487389","https://openalex.org/W2362238701","https://openalex.org/W2083118887","https://openalex.org/W2347295639","https://openalex.org/W2790043983","https://openalex.org/W2382744343"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Today's":[0],"cloud":[1,86,106,125,148,160],"data":[2,11,122],"centers":[3],"host":[4],"a":[5,43,50,59,110],"wide":[6],"range":[7],"of":[8,37,81,102,114,119],"applications":[9,19,87],"including":[10],"analytics,":[12],"batch":[13],"processing,":[14],"and":[15,25,78,88,117,124,143],"interactive":[16],"processing.":[17],"These":[18],"require":[20],"high":[21,26],"throughput,":[22],"low":[23],"latency,":[24],"reliability":[27],"from":[28],"the":[29,35,73,76,100,115],"network.":[30,74],"Satisfying":[31],"these":[32,150],"requirements":[33],"in":[34,159],"face":[36],"dynamically":[38],"varying":[39],"network":[40,129],"conditions":[41],"remains":[42,90],"challenging":[44],"problem.":[45],"Multi-Path":[46],"TCP":[47,56,61],"(MPTCP)":[48],"is":[49],"recently":[51],"proposed":[52],"IETF":[53],"extension":[54],"to":[55,68,98],"that":[57,134],"divides":[58],"conventional":[60],"flow":[62],"into":[63],"multiple":[64,70],"subflows":[65],"so":[66],"as":[67,92],"utilize":[69],"paths":[71],"over":[72],"Despite":[75],"theoretical":[77],"practical":[79],"benefits":[80,101,151],"MPTCP,":[82],"its":[83],"effectiveness":[84,116],"for":[85,104,121,146],"environments":[89],"unclear":[91],"there":[93],"has":[94],"been":[95],"little":[96],"work":[97],"quantify":[99],"MPTCP":[103,120,136],"real":[105],"applications.":[107],"We":[108],"present":[109],"broad":[111],"empirical":[112],"study":[113],"feasibility":[118],"center":[123],"applications,":[126,149,157],"under":[127],"different":[128],"conditions.":[130],"Our":[131],"results":[132],"show":[133],"while":[135],"provides":[137],"useful":[138],"bandwidth":[139],"aggregation,":[140],"congestion":[141],"avoidance,":[142],"improved":[144],"resiliency":[145],"some":[147],"do":[152],"not":[153],"apply":[154],"uniformly":[155],"across":[156],"especially":[158],"settings.":[161]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":6}],"updated_date":"2026-03-18T14:38:29.013473","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}
