Multi-point Multi-path Transport Protocol Resource Pooling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multi-path transport protocols are limited in handling overloads or unavailability of local resources at end systems, particularly in client-server scenarios, leading to communication degradation or disruption, especially in mobile devices with capacity limitations.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a multi-point multi-path transport protocol that distributes resources across multiple physically distinct apparatuses, ensuring synchronized data content and connection states, thereby extending resource pooling to include end system resources and enhancing performance and fault tolerance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multi-path transport protocols pool communication resources along multiple Internet paths, then communication performance and fault tolerance are improved, but local end system resources can still become overloaded or unavailable causing communication degradation
Solution Approach 1:
The invention segments the end system into multiple physically distinct apparatuses, each capable of independently handling transport connections. This segmentation allows the system to distribute local resources across multiple devices, preventing any single apparatus from becoming overloaded while maintaining fault tolerance through distributed resource pooling.
2Reliability
If multi-path transport protocols are used to transfer data objects between end systems, then communication robustness is improved, but capacity limitations on client side (especially mobile devices) still cause communication disruption
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges multiple physically distinct apparatuses into a single logical end system through the multi-point multi-path transport protocol. This merging allows the combination of resources from multiple devices, including mobile devices with capacity limitations, to collectively provide sufficient resources for robust communication while maintaining adaptability to individual device constraints.
3Device complexity
If transport protocols assume single Internet path for data flow, then protocol complexity is reduced, but communication performance and fault tolerance are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The invention creates a universal transport protocol that functions with both single-path and multi-path configurations. The multi-point multi-path transport protocol can operate over a single Internet path when available, maintaining simplicity, while automatically utilizing multiple paths when they exist, thereby achieving both low complexity and high fault tolerance through multi-functionality.
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AI summary
A method including operating in an apparatus a multi-point multi-path transport protocol providing a multi-point multi-path transport connection, and using said apparatus in said multi-point multi-path transport connection as a part of an end system formed by said apparatus and other apparatuses that are physically distinct from said apparatus.