Intro

1. MPTCP RobE draft-amend-mptcp-robe-01 is a set of extensions to regular MPTCP RFC6824 and its next upcoming version draft-ietf-mptcp-rfc6824bis. It is designed to provide a more Robust Establishment (RobE) of MPTCP sessions.

2. RobE includes RobE_TIMER, RobE_SIM, RobE_eSIM and RobE_IPS. It also presents the design and protocol procedure for the combination scenario in addition to these stand-alone solutions, i.e. the combination of RobE_SIM and RobE_IPS, the combination of RobE_TIMER and RobE_IPS.

You can find further recommended literature under

• ​https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/105/materials/slides-105-mptcp-robe-01
• ​https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/106/materials/slides-106-mptcp-multipath-tcp-extension-for-robust-session-establishment
• ​https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3232755.3232762

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