Re: [multipathtcp] MPTCP carrying UDP

[Olivier Bonaventure <[e-mail]>]

Med,

>>>> To understand the interactions between QUIC and an underlying MPTCP
>>>> transport, we performed some experiments by running QUIC over OpenVPN
>>>> that runs itself over an MPTCP connection. This is the closest scenario
>>>> to what you are discussing based on existing open-source software.
>>>
>>> [Med] The schema we are investigating does not include this cascaded
>> layers. It is only UDP payload transported in plain MPTCP connections.
>>
>>
>> The cascading layers increase the CPU and byte overhead, but the
>> interactions between the congestion control schemes and the reliablity
>> mechanisms remains.
>
> [Med] My point is that we need to isolate the impact of those cascaded layers on the CPU/Performance efficiency from pure interactions between the CCs.

Given the performance of the PCs used as router, the CPU has no impact here.

The lessons that we've learned from this experiment, and others where 
users have reported experiments with running TCP over OpenVPN running 
over MPTCP is that it is a bad idea to run a protocol that uses a 
congestion control scheme above a protocol that provides a reliable 
delivery before the reliable delivery comes from retransmissions and 
those retransmissions hide packet losses that serve as indication for 
the congestion controller. This lessons applies to QUIC and similar 
protocols.

If you have other experimental data, please share it on the list so that 
we can discuss based on real data.


Olivier