S.Mascolo, “HTTP over UDP: An experimental investigation of QUIC

This paper investigates “Quick UDP Internet Connections” (QUIC), which was proposed by Google in 2012 as a reliable protocol on top of UDP in order to reduce Web Page re-trieval time. We first check, through experiments, if QUIC can be safely deployed in the Internet and then we evalu-ate the Web page load time in comparison with SPDY and HTTP. We have found that QUIC reduces the overall page retrieval time with respect to HTTP in case of a channel without induced random losses and outperforms SPDY in the case of a lossy channel. The FEC module, when en-abled, worsens the performance of QUIC