An Analysis of QUIC Connection Migration in the Wild

Aurélien Buchet and Cristel Pelsser

arXiv October 2024
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Abstract

As QUIC gains attention, more applications that leverage its capabilities are emerging. These include defenses against on-path IP tracking and traffic analysis. However, the deployment of the underlying required support for connection migration remains largely unexplored. This paper provides a comprehensive examination of the support of the QUIC connection migration mechanism over the Internet. We perform Internet-wide scans revealing that despite a rapid evolution in the deployment of QUIC on web servers, some of the most popular destinations do not support connection migration yet.

Publication Details

Publication Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
October 2024
Published In
arXiv

BibTeX Citation

@techreport{Buchet2024,
	title        = {An Analysis of QUIC Connection Migration in the Wild},
	author       = {Aurélien Buchet and Cristel Pelsser},
	year         = 2024,
	month        = oct,
	journal      = {arXiv},
	url          = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06066},
	abstract     = {As QUIC gains attention, more applications that leverage its capabilities are emerging. These include defenses against on-path IP tracking and traffic analysis. However, the deployment of the underlying required support for connection migration remains largely unexplored. This paper provides a comprehensive examination of the support of the QUIC connection migration mechanism over the Internet. We perform Internet-wide scans revealing that despite a rapid evolution in the deployment of QUIC on web servers, some of the most popular destinations do not support connection migration yet.},
	archiveprefix = {arXiv},
	eprint       = {2410.06066},
	groups       = {Technical reports},
	primaryclass = {cs.NI}
}

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