Methods and systems for managing multipath communication

A user equipment (UE) for managing multipath communication comprising:

• at least one communication interface;
• at least one memory storing one or more instructions;
• and
• processing circuitry configured to execute the plurality of instructions to:
• use an output of a neural network to determine whether to enable an asynchronous redundant multipath mode, wherein the asynchronous redundant multipath mode is a mode that transmits redundant data asynchronously to a plurality of servers, and wherein the neural network is trained to generate an output indicating whether to enable the asynchronous redundant multipath mode based on an input comprising at least one of a file system variable, a socket option, an allowed list of applications, or a maximum segment size of an application, and
• based on determining the asynchronous redundant multipath mode is to be enabled:
• acquire a plurality of network addresses respectively corresponding to a plurality of servers associated with a domain,
• enable the asynchronous redundant multipath mode,
• create a plurality of independent master sockets corresponding to the plurality of servers associated with the domain, wherein each of the master sockets includes a transport control protocol (TCP) subflow and multipath specific variables,
• based on creating the master sockets, independently and asynchronously send, through the at least one communication interface, a data request to the plurality of servers associated with the domain based on the acquired plurality of network addresses in the asynchronous redundant multipath mode, wherein the data request includes a multipath capable (MP_CAPABLE) request, and wherein the multipath capable request indicates the UE supports multipath communication,
• receive a first data packet transmitted from a server of the plurality of servers associated with the domain in response to the data request, the first data packet being received first in order among a plurality of data packets transmitted from the plurality of servers associated with the domain in response to the data request,
• accept the first data packet, and
• reject data packets, from among the plurality of data packets, transmitted from each server of the plurality of servers associated with the domain other than the server that transmitted the first data packet.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by at least one processor of a user equipment (UE), cause the at least one processor to execute a method of managing multipath communication by the UE, the method comprising:

• using an output of a neural network to determine whether to enable an asynchronous redundant multipath mode, wherein the asynchronous redundant multipath mode is a mode that transmits redundant data asynchronously to a plurality of servers, and wherein the neural network is trained to generate an output indicating whether to enable the asynchronous redundant multipath mode based on an input comprising at least one of a file system variable, a socket option, an allowed list of applications, or a maximum segment size of an application, and
• based on determining the asynchronous redundant multipath mode is to be enabled:
• acquiring a plurality of network addresses respectively corresponding to a plurality of servers associated with a domain;
• enabling the asynchronous redundant multipath mode;
• creating a plurality of independent master sockets corresponding to the plurality of servers associated with the domain, wherein each of the master sockets includes a transport control protocol (TCP) subflow and multipath specific variables;
• based on creating the master sockets, independently and asynchronously sending, by the UE, a data request to the plurality of servers associated with the domain based on the acquired plurality of network addresses in the asynchronous redundant multipath mode, wherein the data request includes a multipath capable (MP_CAPABLE) request, and wherein the multipath capable request indicates the UE supports multipath communication;
• receiving a first data packet transmitted from a server of the plurality of servers associated with the domain in response to the data request, the first data packet being received first in order among a plurality of data packets transmitted from the plurality of servers associated with the domain in response to the data request;
• accepting the first data packet;
• and
• rejecting data packets, from among the plurality of data packets, transmitted from each server of the plurality of servers associated with the domain other than the server that transmitted the first data packet.