Improving performance of QUIC in WiFi

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Defense date2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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QUIC is a new transport protocol under standardization since 2016. Initially developed by Google as an experiment, the protocol is already deployed in large-scale, thanks to its support in Chromium and Google's servers. In this paper we experimentally analyze the performance of QUIC in WiFi networks. We perform experiments using both a controlled WiFi testbed and a production WiFi mesh network. In particular, we study how QUIC interplays with MAC layer features such as IEEE 802.11 frame aggregation. We show that the current implementation of QUIC in Chromium achieves sub-optimal throughput in wireless networks. Indeed, burstiness in modern WiFi standards may improve network performance, and we show that a Bursty QUIC (BQUIC), i.e., a customized version of QUIC that is targeted to increase its burstiness, can achieve better performance in WiFi. BQUIC outperforms the current version of QUIC in WiFi, with throughput gains ranging between 20% to 30%.
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CitationManzoor, J. [et al.]. Improving performance of QUIC in WiFi. A: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. "2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019, p. 1-6.
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