Measuring internet performances with QUIC

Details

Supervisors

Bonaventure, Olivier

Faculty

Ecole polytechnique de Louvain

Degree label

Master [120] en sciences informatiques, à finalité spécialisée

Abstract

For many years internet utilization has increased. And people are having more and more bandwidth capacity, but they still have a lot of latency. There exist solutions to handle this latency but they are not enough applied. At the same time, internet protocols are evolving and new transport protocols are being created. This is the case for the QUIC protocol. So in this work, we propose tools to point out the latency issue. The first one is a set of statistics that can be derived from a QUIC connection. The second tool measures latency for different scenarios where for example we take a fixed sending rate beyond user capacity. And the third tool is a website that measures latency in working conditions and so knows the real impact of the latency increase for people. With those tools, we were able to quantify the impact of the augmentation of latency inside the internet and know the cause of this.