Traffic steering for stateless packets over multipath networks

A method comprising:

• receiving an encapsulated packet via a tunnel between a gateway and a customer premises equipment (CPE) that are connected by a plurality of concurrent communication paths, wherein the tunnel is associated with a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) session and supported by a multipath connection including a plurality of subflows associated with the plurality of concurrent communication paths;
• de-encapsulating the encapsulated packet based on the HTTP session to form a de-encapsulated packet;
• and
• generating a packet of a stateless flow based on a payload of the de-encapsulated packet.

An apparatus comprising:

• a proxy configured to establish a tunnel between a gateway and a customer premises equipment (CPE) that are connected by a plurality of concurrent communication paths, wherein the tunnel is associated with a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) session and supported by a multipath connection including a plurality of subflows associated with the plurality of concurrent communication paths;
• an encapsulation module configured to encapsulate a packet of a stateless flow based on the HTTP session to form an encapsulated packet;
• and
• a transmitter configured to transmit the encapsulated packet over the multipath connection via at least one of the plurality of subflows.

An apparatus comprising:

• a proxy configured to receive an encapsulated packet via a tunnel between a gateway and a customer premises equipment (CPE) that are connected by a plurality of concurrent communication paths, wherein the tunnel is associated with a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) session and supported by a multipath connection including a plurality of subflows associated with the plurality of concurrent communication paths;
• a de-encapsulation module configured to de-encapsulate the encapsulated packet based on the HTTP session to form a de-encapsulated packet;
• and
• a packet forwarding module configured to generate a packet of a stateless flow based on a payload of the de-encapsulated packet.