With the rapid development of wireless networks, multiple network interfaces are gradually being designed into more and more\nmobile devices. When it comes to data delivery, Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)-based Concurrent Multipath\nTransfer (CMT) has proven to be quite useful solution for multiple home networks, and it could become the key transport protocol\nfor the next generation of wireless communications.The CMTdelay caused by data rearrangement has been noticed by researchers,\nbut they have seldom considered the frequent occurrence of packet loss that occurs in the high-loss networks. In this paper, we\nproposed an original loss-aware solution for multipath concurrent transmission (CMT-LA) that achieves the following goals: (1)\nidentifying packet loss on all paths, (2) distributing packets adaptively acrossmultiple available paths according to their packet loss\nand loss variation, and (3) maintaining the features of bandwidth aggregation and parallel transmission of CMT while improving\nthe throughput performance. The results of our simulations showed that the proposed CMT-LA reduces reordering delay and\nunnecessary fast retransmissions, thereby demonstrating that CMT-LA is a more efficient data delivery scheme than classic CMT.
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