Waiting for QUIC: Passive Measurements to Understand QUIC Deployments

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Beitragende

  • Jonas Mücke - , Professur für Distributed and Networked Systems (Autor:in)
  • Marcin Nawrocki - , NetScout Systems, Inc (Autor:in)
  • Raphael Hiesgen - , Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW) (Autor:in)
  • Patrick Sattler - , Technische Universität München (Autor:in)
  • Johannes Zirngibl - , Technische Universität München (Autor:in)
  • Georg Carle - , Technische Universität München (Autor:in)
  • Jan Luxemburk - , Czech Technical University in Prague, CESNET (Autor:in)
  • Thomas C. Schmidt - , Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW) (Autor:in)
  • Matthias Wählisch - , Professur für Distributed and Networked Systems (Autor:in)

Abstract

QUIC experiences a rapid adoption since its standardization in 2021, and hypergiants configure their infrastructure to optimize for QUIC performance. In this paper, we introduce a passive measurement method to study both the progressive rollout and individual hypergiant configurations during the last five years. By analyzing backscatter traffic of the UCSD network telescope, we are able to make the following observations. First, Meta, Google, and Cloudflare configure significantly different maximal retransmission numbers and timeouts. Second, we can identify different off-net deployments of hypergiants, using packet features, such as QUIC connection IDs, packet coalescence, and packet lengths. Third, we observe changing hypergiant deployment configurations during our different measurement periods. Fourth, connection IDs can allow further insights into load balancer deployments, such as the number of servers. We bolster our results using two orthogonal measurements: passive recording of QUIC flows and active probing.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer41
Seiten (von - bis)1-26
Seitenumfang26
FachzeitschriftProceedings of the ACM on Networking
Jahrgang3
AusgabenummerCONEXT4
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Dez. 2025
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Konferenz

TitelACM 21th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
KurztitelCoNEXT 2025
Veranstaltungsnummer21
Dauer1 - 4 Dezember 2025
Webseite
BekanntheitsgradInternationale Veranstaltung
OrtThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
StadtHong Kong
LandHongkong

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-3825-2807/work/196056598
Mendeley ee98f970-366b-313c-bcca-6695d161ec87

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