Performance of the QUIC Transport Protocol over Geostationary Satellite Links

Jahandar Bonab S, Deutschmann J, Hielscher KS, German R (2023)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2023

Publisher: IET

Pages Range: 222-227

Conference Proceedings Title: 40th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2023)

Event location: Bradford GB

ISBN: 9781837240821

URI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10572049

DOI: 10.1049/icp.2024.0851

Abstract

Traditional transport layer protocols like TCP face limitations in high-latency scenarios, such as geostationary satellite communications. The QUIC protocol is a reliable transport protocol designed for secure communication, low-latency connection setup, and evolvability. This study investigates QUIC's advantages in geostationary satellite environments and evaluates the QUIC implementations picoquic and quiche, both with the congestion control algorithms CUBIC and BBR. NetEm is used to introduce specific path characteristics such as data rate and delay. Docker is used to ensure reproducibility, portability, and environmental consistency, facilitating streamlined setup and configuration across different platforms. Assuming that PEPs are not applicable, results demonstrate that QUIC implementations can outperform TCP in connection establishment time and object download time considering a single flow. Utilizing qlog, a logging format for QUIC, aids in-depth analysis of protocol interactions. qlog files are used to show various metrics: time-offset and retransmissions, pacing rate, congestion window size, bytes in flight, round trip times, throughput, and goodput. Results show that picoquic performs better than quiche regardless of the congestion control algorithm. quiche in combination with BBR shows sub-optimal performance which needs further investigation.

Authors with CRIS profile

Saeid Jahandar Bonab Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems) Jörg Deutschmann Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems) Kai-Steffen Hielscher Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems) Reinhard German Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems)

Related research project(s)

New protocols for faster Internet via satellite (QUICSAT) Oct. 1, 2021 - Sept. 30, 2024

How to cite

APA:

Jahandar Bonab, S., Deutschmann, J., Hielscher, K.-S., & German, R. (2023). Performance of the QUIC Transport Protocol over Geostationary Satellite Links. In 40th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2023) (pp. 222-227). Bradford, GB: IET.

MLA:

Jahandar Bonab, Saeid, et al. "Performance of the QUIC Transport Protocol over Geostationary Satellite Links." Proceedings of the 40th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2023), Bradford IET, 2023. 222-227.

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