# Exploiting the Power of Multiplicity: A Holistic Survey of Network-Layer Multipath

@article{Qadir2015ExploitingTP,
title={Exploiting the Power of Multiplicity: A Holistic Survey of Network-Layer Multipath},
author={Junaid Qadir and Anwaar Ali and Kok-lim Alvin Yau and Arjuna Sathiaseelan and Jon Crowcroft},
journal={IEEE Communications Surveys \& Tutorials},
year={2015},
volume={17},
pages={2176-2213}
}
• Published 7 February 2015
• IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
The Internet is inherently a multipath network: For an underlying network with only a single path, connecting various nodes would have been debilitatingly fragile. Unfortunately, traditional Internet technologies have been designed around the restrictive assumption of a single working path between a source and a destination. The lack of native multipath support constrains network performance even as the underlying network is richly connected and has redundant multiple paths. Computer networks…
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