An Analysis of QUIC Connection Migration in the Wild
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
- External Link
- https://doi.org/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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