A Detail Survey on QUIC and its Impact on Network Data Transmission
Pratiksha Narasimha Nayak G, Nimisha Dey, N Neha, Malavika Hariprasad, S Sandhya, Minal Moharir, Muteeb Akram · 2022 6th International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI) · 2022
As the number of Internet users progressively increase, latency and speed have become significant concerns among netizens. To meet their demands, Google developed a novel network protocol named QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connection 1) which is built on UDP. Recently, IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has been working towards standardising QUIC. Applications like YouTube, Gmail, Chrome, Instagram and Meta have already adopted QUIC as their default network protocol. Through this paper, a critical comparative study between the conventionally used TCP/IP and the now emerging QUIC in terms of connection establishment, speed, reliability and security has been conducted. The paper explains the header structure of TCP and also details the packet structure along with the method of encryption adopted in QUIC. This paper also presents a comprehensive analysis of the advantages and vulnerabilities of QUIC. Vulnerabilities along with their proposed solutions have been tabulated. QUIC has a lot of advantages, and with more research, it has the potential of becoming the future of network protocols.