Taking a Long Look at QUIC: An Approach for Rigorous Evaluation of Rapidly Evolving Transport Protocols.

Google's Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol, which implements TCP-like properties at the application layer atop a UDP transport, is now used by the vast majority of Chrome clients accessing Google properties but has no formal state machine specification, limited analysis, and ad-hoc eval...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 62; no. 7; pp. 86 - 95
Autores principales: Kakhki, Arash Molavi, Jero, Samuel, Choffnes, David, Nita-Rotaru, Cristina, Mislove, Alan
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Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2019
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          Kakhki, Arash Molavi
          Jero, Samuel
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          ThousandEyes, Boston, MA, USA
          Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
          College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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        Internet protocols
        Transport protocols (Computer network protocols)
        Google Chrome (Computer software)
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        Personal computer performance
        Mobile computing
        TCP/IP
        Finite state machines
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      ab: Google's Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol, which implements TCP-like properties at the application layer atop a UDP transport, is now used by the vast majority of Chrome clients accessing Google properties but has no formal state machine specification, limited analysis, and ad-hoc evaluations based on snapshots of the protocol implementation in a small number of environments. Further frustrating attempts to evaluate QUIC is the fact that the protocol is under rapid development, with extensive rewriting of the protocol occurring over the scale of months, making individual studies of the protocol obsolete before publication. Given this unique scenario, there is a need for alternative techniques for understanding and evaluating QUIC when compared with previous transport-layer protocols. First, we develop an approach that allows us to conduct analysis across multiple versions of QUIC to understand how code changes impact protocol effectiveness. Next, we instrument the source code to infer QUIC's state machine from execution traces. With this model, we run QUIC in a large number of environments that include desktop and mobile, wired and wireless environments and use the state machine to understand differences in transportand application-layer performance across multiple versions of QUIC and in different environments. QUIC generally outperforms TCP, but we also identified performance issues related to window sizes, re-ordered packets, and multiplexing large number of small objects; further, we identify that QUIC's performance diminishes on mobile devices and over cellular networks.
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