Study on MPTCP Enhancement by IP Routing for WebQoE Improvement

This paper studies enhancement of Multi-Path TCP(MPTCP), which is one of new transport-layer protocols of TCP/IP protocol suites, by IP routing for improvement of Quality of Experience for a Web service (WebQoE). In order to confirm the effect of IP routing on WebQoE, the author performed experiments with subjects. In the experiment, the subjects assess Quality of Experience of two actual Web services for different paths under 5 experimental environments. The author utilizes Web usability as QoE parameters. The results show that it is desirable to use appropriate routing for MPTCP enhancement in order to improve Web- Quality of Experience.