Innovating Transport with QUIC: Design Approaches and Research Challenges

• Published in: IEEE internet computing Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 72 - 76
• Main Authors: Yong Cui, Tianxiang Li, Cong Liu, Xingwei Wang, Kuhlewind, Mirja
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-03-2017
• Subjects: Cryptography; Data transfer; HTTP/2; IETF; Internet and Web services; Internet standards; Internet/Web technologies; Latency; Multiplexing; Packet loss; Protocols; QUIC; security and privacy; Servers; TCP; TLS
• ISSN: 1089-7801; 1941-0131
• DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2017.44

In today's Internet, there are many challenges such as low-latency support for interactive communication, security and privacy of user data, as well as development and deployment of new transport mechanisms. Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) is a new transport protocol that addresses these challenges, focusing on HTTP/2 transmission as a first use case. The first QUIC working group meeting took place at IETF-97 in November 2016, and it has begun the standardization process. This article introduces the key features of QUIC and discusses the potential challenges that require further consideration.