Multipath Dissemination for Collaborative Mobile Internet Access

Multihoming has become increasingly common, especially in the mobile domain. This enables co-located devices to form networks on demand. These networks can then be used to share and extend Internet connectivity. As multiple heterogeneous links are available on each device, additional points of Internet access are exposed within the network, typically they are left unused. In this paper we propose and evaluate a technique which enables multipath communications to take advantage of these additional links, by doing so we increase bandwidth, resilience and therefore the quality of service and experience. This is achieved by disseminating multihomed information into the network, with the intention of building a complete topological view at each host. Consequently, this enables intelligent link selection per application, as well as facilitating multipath protocols to use any available network resource.