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5. Future prospects
Despite the functional richness of the MPTCP protocol, it has a number of constraints that are likely to hinder its adoption. Examples of functional evolution are given in section 5.3 .
5.1 Optimizing MPTCP engineering
The protocol has no means of detecting a priori the compatibility of a path with MPTCP (i.e. establishing an MPTCP sub-session via the path): in particular, the presence of one or more middlebox devices, on the path on which a sub-session could be established, could be...
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