An Analysis of QUIC Connection Migration in the Wild

Aurélien Buchet and Cristel Pelsser

SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. April 2025 Pages 3--9
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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
Journal Article
Publication Date
April 2025
Published In
SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev.
Volume & Issue
Vol. 55, No. 1
Pages
3--9
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Location
New York, NY, USA
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1145/3727063.3727066

BibTeX Citation

@article{Buchet2025,
	title        = {An Analysis of QUIC Connection Migration in the Wild},
	author       = {Buchet, Aurélien and Pelsser, Cristel},
	year         = 2025,
	month        = apr,
	journal      = {SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev.},
	publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
	address      = {New York, NY, USA},
	volume       = 55,
	number       = 1,
	pages        = {3--9},
	doi          = {10.1145/3727063.3727066},
	issn         = {0146-4833},
	url          = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3727063.3727066},
	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.},
	groups       = {International Journals and Magazines},
	issue_date   = {January 2025},
	keywords     = {QUIC, migration, measurements, internet scans, QUIC migration deployment},
	numpages     = 7,
	award        = {Best of CCR Award}
}

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