Volume 35, Issue 5 e4778
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE

Multipath transport control protocol for 5G mobile augmented reality networks

Tariq Khan

Tariq Khan

Department of Computer Science, Iqra University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Adnan Sohail

Adnan Sohail

Department of Computer Science, Iqra University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Kashif Naseer Qureshi

Kashif Naseer Qureshi

Department of Computer Science, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Saleem Iqbal

Saleem Iqbal

University Institute of Information Technology, PMAS-AAUR, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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Gwanggil Jeon

Corresponding Author

Gwanggil Jeon

Department of Embedded Systems Engineering, College of Information Technology, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea

Correspondence

Gwanggil Jeon, Department of Embedded Systems Engineering, College of Information Technology, Incheon National University, 119 Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 22012, South Korea.

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First published: 09 March 2021
Citations: 4

Funding information: Incheon National University Research; National Research Foundation of Korea, Grant/Award Number: 2019K1A3A1A8011295711

Summary

The performance of backhaul networks is the major concern for internet service providers, cloud service providers, and data centers for redundancy and reliability. With the integration of new data communication technologies, the system should be more smart and intelligent to handle data traffic coming from new networks like 5G. This new 5G standard provides connectivity among devices where all the traffic is handled by backbone and backhaul networks. The devices and nodes need multiple interfaces, but the TCP/IP standard uses a single path per connection for data communication. This limitation leads to the degradation of network performance and communication failures. There is a need to enhance data throughput and performance by using available paths and interfaces. Multipath Transport Control Protocol (MTCP) is one of the advanced extension of the TCP/IP standard for using available interfaces. This paper proposed an MTCP based infrastructure for 5G networks to handle all the coming data from these networks and provide fast reliable data handling. The proposed infrastructure is evaluated in simulation to check its performance with existing standards. The results indicate that the proposed infrastructure is minimizing the convergence time in case of any failure in the main path.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

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