| Communication protocol | |
 | |
| Purpose | General Purpose |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | IETF |
| Introduction | 2009 |
| Based on | IP, normally layered with TCP |
| OSI layer | Transport layer |
| RFC(s) | RFC 8684 |
| Internet protocol suite |
|---|
| Application layer |
| Transport layer |
| Internet layer |
| Link layer |
Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is an ongoing effort of the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) Multipath TCP working group, that aims at allowing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection to use multiple paths to maximize throughput and increase redundancy.[1]
In January 2013, the IETF published the Multipath specification as an Experimental standard in RFC 6824. It was replaced in March 2020 by the Multipath TCP v1 specification in RFC 8684.