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International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications
2020
Session Number:D4
Session:
Number:D4-3
Performance Evaluation of MPTCP-based IoT Router with Multiple Radios
Taichi Tsuru, Kien Nguyen, Hiroo Sekiya,
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Publication Date:2020/12/2
Online ISSN:2188-5079
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Summary:
The Internet of Things (IoT) device typically needs to send data to the cloud, which is a server on the Internet, for IoT applications. In the scenario with a large number of IoT devices, keeping direct communication between the device and server is costly. One of the suitable solutions is to provide an IoT router to reduce the cost. The IoT router should have resilient Internet connections as well as sufficient bandwidth. In this paper, we implement and evaluate an IoT router, which uses multiple radios to connect a server, aiming to address the problems. The router leverages Multipath TCP (MPTCP), which is an extension of TCP for simultaneous transmission over several radio interfaces. We then enable the operation of MPTCP over multiple Wi-Fi links. The evaluation results show that the router could achieve seamless handover and bandwidth aggregation.