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Quantum networks open the way to an unprecedented level of communication security. However, due to physical limitations on the distances of quantum links, current implementations of quantum networks are unavoidably equipped with trusted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Mateusz Stępniak , Jakub Mielczarek

A well-known technique for enhancing the performance and stability of content distribution is the use of multiple dissemination flows. Multipath TCP (MPTCP), the most popular multiflow protocol on the Internet, allows receivers to exploit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Yannis Thomas , George Xylomenos , Christos Tsilopoulos , George C. Polyzos

A quantum network, which involves multiple parties pinging each other with quantum messages, could revolutionize communication, computing and basic sciences. The future internet will be a global system of various packet switching quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Nengkun Yu , Ching-Yi Lai , Li Zhou

Path-aware networks promise enhanced performance and resilience through multipath transport, but a lack of empirical data on their real-world dynamics hinders the design of effective protocols. This paper presents a longitudinal measurement…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Lars Herschbach , Damien Rossi , Sina Keshvadi

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of autonomous nodes that communicate with each other by forming a multi-hop radio network and maintaining connections in a decentralized manner. Security remains a major challenge for these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Jaydip Sen

Mass live content, such as world cups, the Superbowl or the Olympics, attract audiences of hundreds of millions of viewers. While such events were predominantly consumed on TV, more and more viewers follow big events on the Internet, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Max Franke , Jake Holland , Stefan Schmid

QUIC has rapidly evolved into a cornerstone transport protocol for secure, low-latency communications, yet its deployment continues to expose critical security and privacy vulnerabilities, particularly during connection establishment phases…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jayasree Sengupta , Debasmita Dey , Simone Ferlin-Reiter , Nirnay Ghosh , Vaibhav Bajpai

QUIC is a performance-optimized secure transport protocol and a building block of the upcoming HTTP/3 standard. To protect against denial-of-service attacks, QUIC servers need to validate the IP addresses claimed by their clients. So far,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Erik Sy

Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) is a new transport protocol that enables systems to exploit available paths through multiple network interfaces. MPTCP is particularly useful for mobile devices, which usually have multiple wireless interfaces.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Yeon-sup Lim , Yung-Chih Chen , Erich M. Nahum , Don Towsley , Richard J. Gibbens

QUIC is a new transport protocol combining the reliability and congestion control features of TCP with the security features of TLS. One of the main challenges with QUIC is to guarantee that any of its implementation follows the IETF…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Christophe Crochet , Tom Rousseaux , J-F Sambon , Maxime Piraux , Axel Legay

In this paper, we propose a model for evaluating the transmission performance of multipath transport. Previous researches focused exclusively on single pair users in simple scenarios. The distinct perspective in this paper is to build…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Chang Liu , Fei Song , Huan Yan , Sidong Zhang

This paper addresses the use of Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) in a single Radio Access Technology (RAT) network. Different from other studies where multiple RATs are explored by the MPTCP, a situation that cannot be always…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-01 João Torrinhas , Miguel Luís , Duarte Dias , Pedro Rito , Susana Sargento

Existing performance comparisons of QUIC and TCP compared an optimized QUIC to an unoptimized TCP stack. By neglecting available TCP improvements inherently included in QUIC, comparisons do not shed light on the performance of current web…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Konrad Wolsing , Jan Rüth , Klaus Wehrle , Oliver Hohlfeld

Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is a standardized TCP extension which allows end-hosts to simultaneously exploit all of their network interfaces. The recent proliferation of dual-SIM mobile phones makes multi-LTE MPTCP setup an attractive option. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Nitinder Mohan , Tanya Shreedhar , Aleksandr Zavodovski , Jussi Kangasharju , Sanjit K. Kaul

This document is a technical overview and discussion of our work, a protocol for secure group messaging. By secure we mean for the actual users i.e. end-to-end security, as opposed to "secure" for irrelevant third parties. Our work provides…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Ximin Luo , Guy Kloss

Path-aware networks promise enhanced performance and resilience through multipath transport, but a lack of empirical data on their real-world dynamics hinders the design of effective protocols. This paper presents a longitudinal measurement…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Damien Rossi , Lars Herschbach , Sina Keshvadi

We design a cross-layer approach to optimize the joint use of multi-packet reception and network coding, in order to relieve congestion. We construct a model for the behavior of the 802.11 MAC and apply it to several key canonical topology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Jason Cloud , Linda Zeger , Muriel Médard

Most end devices are now equipped with multiple network interfaces. Applications can exploit all available interfaces and benefit from multipath transmission. Recently Multipath TCP (MPTCP) was proposed to implement multipath transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Liyang Sun , Guibin Tian , Guanyu Zhu , Yong Liu , Hang Shi , David Dai

Driven by the primary requirement of emerging 5G mobile services, the demand for concurrent multipath transfer (CMT) is still prominent. Yet, multipath transport protocols are not widely adopted and TCP-based CMT schemes will still be in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jiayang Song , Ping Dong , Huachun Zhou , Tao Zheng , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

While applications quickly evolve, Internet protocols do not follow the same pace. There are two root causes for this. First, extending protocol with cleartext control plane is usually hindered by various network devices such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Quentin De Coninck