A multi-path Dynamically Leased Protocol Over LoRaWAN & Uplinks

[josh]

There is some work, for example on multi-path onion routing. 1 paper examined the extreme solution of picking a route for each IP packet. More block-oriented solutions to multiplexing would be more efficient

[josh]

I looked at some compression protocols to see if any had a design that could fit online, adaptive, multipath, multiplex streaming. I didn’t see any fit. It makes sense to design something – dictionary based, a method for sending new entries, and algorithms for multipath routing of dictionary word matches, etc.

I imagine that the same algorithm can fit multiple network roles. Such as

unmanned endpoint – some type of security sensor, like a camera, that doesn’t do much most of the time, but suddenly sees an important image & wants to send data using all the available bandwidth

router in mid network – goal is to keep it busy, so it is involved in various paths & data handling

auto traveling – downloading podcasts & music, using whatever is in range

satellite …

The point is that we can still say this is useful for some low energy endpoints in transmission, & maximizes nework resources, without necessarily planning complex decoding at low energy endpoints. If a protocol is easily realizable in hardware though, that is a plus. In general, the level of compression with multipath & with multiplexing will not match single file – there’s a price for the parallelization, but it is still a smart spend.

[josh]

Another application with heavy client, receiving & sending is online video game play. Minimizing latency and graphic resolution are both super emphasized there. Even without multipath considerations, I imagine they are always looking for improvements.

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