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Multipath TCP

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Decoupled from IP, TCP is at last able to support multihomed hosts.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 4
            April 2014
            97 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2580723
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            • Moshe Y. Vardi
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