All Roads Lead to Rome: An MPTCP-Aware Layer-4 Load Balancer

Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is a promising protocol that aggregates the bandwidth of mobile client's multiple interfaces. However, currently it is still not widely adopted. A key reason for this slow adoption is that the layer-4 load balancers (LBs) used to scale TCP based services in data centers are not MPTCP-aware and forward the multiple TCP subflows of the same MPTCP connection independently to dif...