... and robustness.Based on the network layer where the striping techniques are applied, we classify theminto link -layer, transport- layer, and application -layer striping.2.1 Network TestbedsWe ... research efforts thatimprove the end-to-end performance using striping at the link -layer, application -layer and transport- layer. Chapter 3 focuses on PlanetSeer, a large-scale distributed system for ... failures.Chapter 4 presents mTCP, a novel transport layer protocol that is robust to perfor-mance anomaly. mTCP differs from traditional transport layer protocols in that it canuse more than...