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Poster: QUIC is not Quick Enough over Fast Internet

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IMC '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference

Pages 730 - 731

https://doi.org/10.1145/3618257.3625002

Published: 24 October 2023 Publication History

Abstract

QUIC is a multiplexed transport-layer protocol over UDP and comes with enforced encryption. It is expected to be a game-changer in improving web application performance. Together with the network layer and layers below, UDP, QUIC, and HTTP/3 form a new protocol stack for future network communication, whose current counterpart is TCP, TLS, and HTTP/2. In this study, to understand QUIC's performance over high-speed networks and its potential to replace the TCP stack, we carry out a series of experiments to compare the UDP+QUIC+HTTP/3 (QUIC) stack and the TCP+TLS+HTTP/2 (HTTP/2) stack. Preliminary measurements on file download reveal that QUIC suffers from a data rate reduction compared to HTTP/2 across different hosts.

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Bi PZou YXiao MYu DLi YLiu ZXie QCai JKankanhalli MPrabhakaran BBoll SSubramanian RZheng LSingh VCesar PXie LXu D(2024)LiteQUIC: Improving QoE of Video Streams by Reducing CPU Overhead of QUICProceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia10.1145/3664647.3681670(7918-7927)Online publication date: 28-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3664647.3681670

Index Terms

Poster: QUIC is not Quick Enough over Fast Internet
1. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network measurement
  2. Network protocols
    1. Transport protocols

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IMC '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference

October 2023

746 pages

ISBN:9798400703829

DOI:10.1145/3618257

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McGill University, Canada
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Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
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Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

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Bi PZou YXiao MYu DLi YLiu ZXie QCai JKankanhalli MPrabhakaran BBoll SSubramanian RZheng LSingh VCesar PXie LXu D(2024)LiteQUIC: Improving QoE of Video Streams by Reducing CPU Overhead of QUICProceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia10.1145/3664647.3681670(7918-7927)Online publication date: 28-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3664647.3681670

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