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IETF Multipath-QUIC is coming. The draft enables using multiple network paths simultaneously — this is transformative for satellite: bonding LEO + GEO for reliability, or satellite + terrestrial for seamless handovers with bandwidth aggregation.
Use cases:
LEO + GEO bonding: LEO for low latency, GEO for reliability during LEO handovers
Satellite + terrestrial: seamless failover when entering/leaving satellite coverage
Dual satellite: two LEO operators for redundancy (Starlink + OneWeb)
Standards alignment: 3GPP 5G-Advanced (Rel-18+) defines multi-connectivity for NTN. Multipath-QUIC is the transport-layer mechanism to implement this. Our architecture must be ready.
Relationship with #42: Dynamic parameter switching handles single-path adaptation. Multipath handles multiple simultaneous paths — they're complementary, not competing.
Requirements
Architecture must support multiple QUIC connections per tunnel session
Connection manager abstraction (single path → multi path)
Path quality monitoring per path (RTT, loss, bandwidth, jitter)
Scheduler interface (pluggable strategy):
Redundant: same data on all paths (reliability)
Round-robin: alternate packets across paths (bandwidth aggregation)
Weighted: proportional to path quality (smart aggregation)
Context
IETF Multipath-QUIC is coming. The draft enables using multiple network paths simultaneously — this is transformative for satellite: bonding LEO + GEO for reliability, or satellite + terrestrial for seamless handovers with bandwidth aggregation.
Use cases:
Standards alignment: 3GPP 5G-Advanced (Rel-18+) defines multi-connectivity for NTN. Multipath-QUIC is the transport-layer mechanism to implement this. Our architecture must be ready.
Relationship with #42: Dynamic parameter switching handles single-path adaptation. Multipath handles multiple simultaneous paths — they're complementary, not competing.
Requirements
Implementation
Dependencies
Acceptance Criteria