MPTCP is a TCP extention with the goal of increasing per connection B/W and resilience to link faults. Despite being standardized as RFC since some time, and being requested by corporate users, it still lacks a vanilla Linux kernel implementation. MPTCP is finally coming upstream. This session will describe the protocol itself and then will the issues - both technical and non technical - posed by the upstreaming effort.
After a lifetime forcefully spent in closed source companies, Paolo Abeni is became recently a Linux kernel contributor, with primary area of interest in networking performances.
Friday January 24, 2020 1:00pm - 1:55pm CET
E105Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology, Božetěchova, Brno-Královo Pole, Czechia
