[summ] 基于MPTCP的无线通信节能方案/MPTCP-based Energy Saving Techs in Wireless Networks

1. Saving Mobile Device Energy with Multipath TCP [http://eggert.org/papers/2011-mobiarch-mptcp-saving-energy.pdf]

contribution: proposes a scheduler to switch between 3G and Wi-Fi, in order to save the energy on mobile devices

principle: the scheduler  is derived by solving a Markov decision process (MDP) offline. The MDP-based scheduler takes two inputs:

1) Energy models for 3G and Wi-Fi, which are described as finite state machines (FSM) and related with throughput.

2) Applications models, which are parameterised by monitoring user's communication session.

2.C. Diop, G. Dugue, C. Chassot, and E. Exposito, “QoS-oriented MPTCP Extensions for Multimedia Multi-homed Systems,” in 2012 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), 2012, pp. 1119 –1124.

motivation: Original MPTCP provides a fully reliable service, which might not necessary for multimedia applications.

contribution: extend MPTCP in order to provide partial reliability for interactive video applications. 

注解："Partial Reliability" 是IP多媒体通信是个重要的概念。核心思想是：there is a possibility needed tonot recover loss in order to sure QoS parameters, e.g. delay, throughput. 很多协议基于这个理念，如 selective discarding, adaptive retransmission, etc.针对SCTP最著名的PR应用要属 PR-SCTP，which gives a possibility for the sender to notify the receiver that certain packets should be re-transmitted.

3.K. K. Lam, J. M. Chapin, and V. W. S. Chan, “Performance analysis and optimization of multipath TCP,” in 2011 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2011, pp. 695 –700.

contribution: estimate the optimal number of paths that maximizes efficiency.