SDN for QUIC
Ali Hussein, Ayman Kayssi, Imad H. Elhajj, Ali Chehab · 2018
Quick User Datagram Protocol Internet Connection (QUIC) 1 boosts web traffic performance by solving a number of transport-layer and application-layer problems. QUIC provides key advantages to HTTP/2 such as reduced connection establishment latency, improved congestion control, forward error correction, and connection migration. However, QUIC suffers from three limitations: (1) it performs poorly under high bandwidth and heavy traffic conditions, (2) it suffers from some security issues, (3) it implements static Forwarding Error Correction (FEC) XOR "group" mechanism, which performs poorly under variable network conditions, influencing the utilized bandwidth. Software Defined Networking (SDN), being centralized by nature, provides a global view of the network. When integrated with QUIC, SDN improves resource utilization and network security as we show in this paper. We propose an SDN-enhanced QUIC that achieves improved security at higher bandwidth utilization when transferring large amounts of data.