RT Journal Article T1 BATCP: Bandwidth-Aggregation Transmission Control Protocol A1 Amezcua Valdovinos, Ismael A1 Pérez Diaz, Jesus A1 García Villalba, Luis Javier A1 Kim, Tai-hoon AB The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the most used transport protocol to exchange reliable data between network devices. A considerable number of extensions have been implemented into TCP to achieve better performance. In this paper, we will present, describe, implement, and analyze a new protocol extension called Bandwidth-Aggregation TCP (BATCP), which enables the concurrent use of network interfaces, to improve network performance on multi-homed nodes. BATCP allows the use of multiple TCP connections to accept multiple IP addresses from a multi-homed node, scheduling segments among them based on a scheduling algorithm. Our results show that BATCP achieves full exploitation of each network interface, achieving up to 100% network utilization using two ADSL connections in real-world scenarios. MultiPath TCP (MPTCP) is currently being standardized, and achieves up to 96% of network utilization when in ideal conditions. BATCP and MPTCP are the only protocols tested on real-world scenarios. Related work such as the Proxy Inverse Multiplexer, called PRISM, and bandwidth aggregation with Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) achieve 80% utilization or less with network simulators. PB MDPI SN 2073-8994 YR 2017 FD 2017-08-21 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19230 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19230 LA eng DS Docta Complutense RD 7 may 2024