QUIC

Research of the new QUIC protocol has been a priority at our chair since the early stages of the IETF draft. Our research focuses on the performance of QUIC on high-speed networks but also the protocol deployment on the Internet.

Performance Measurements

We conduct performance measurements of the QUIC protocol and different implementations on testbeds of our chair. All measurements are conducted on real hardware and focus on high-speed scenarios with links of 10Gbit/s or higher. We evaluate different libraries such as LSQUIC, Quiche and quic-go. Measurements are conducted in different scenarios and under different network conditions. Therefore, we developed a framework to enable high-speed network measurements on dedicated hardware servers. It is based on the QUIC Interop Runner and follows different principles: flexibility, portability and reproducibility.

Deployment Identification

Besides performance measurements, we analyze QUIC deployments on the Internet based on large-scale scans. We developed tools to scan QUIC and identify libraries used by the server. We conduct weekly scans and evaluate the state of QUIC deployments and their development over time.

Scientists: Johannes Späth, M.Sc., Benedikt Jaeger, Daniel Petri, M.Sc., Lion Steger, Marcel Kempf, M.Sc.

Projects: PRIMEnet

Publications

2024-06-01	Marcel Kempf, Nikolas Gauder, Benedikt Jaeger, Johannes Zirngibl, Georg Carle, “A Quantum of QUIC: Dissecting Cryptography with Post-Quantum Insights,” in International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking Conference 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jun. 2024. [Preprint] [Rawdata] [DOI] [Bib]
2024-05-01	Markus Sosnowski, Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl, Tim Betzer, Georg Carle, “Propagating Threat Scores With a TLS Ecosystem Graph Model Derived by Active Measurements,” in Proc. Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), May 2024. [Pdf] [Slides] [Homepage] [DOI] [Bib]
2024-03-01	Johannes Zirngibl, Florian Gebauer, Patrick Sattler, Markus Sosnowski, Georg Carle, “QUIC Hunter: Finding QUIC Deployments and Identifying Server Libraries Across the Internet,” in Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Mar. 2024. [Homepage] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-12-01	Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl, Mattijs Jonker, Oliver Gasser, Georg Carle, Ralph Holz, “Packed to the Brim: Investigating the Impact of Highly Responsive Prefixes on Internet-wide Measurement Campaigns,” Proc. ACM Netw., vol. 1, no. CoNEXT3, Dec. 2023. [Url] [Pdf] [Homepage] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-07-01	Johannes Naab, Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl, Stephan Günther, Georg Carle, “Gotta Query ’Em All, Again! Repeatable Name Resolution with Full Dependency Provenance,” in Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, Jul. 2023. [Pdf] [Rawdata] [Bib]
2023-07-01	Johannes Zirngibl, Patrick Sattler, Georg Carle, “A First Look at SVCB and HTTPS DNS Resource Records in the Wild,” in 2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Jul. 2023. [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-07-01	Simon Bauer, Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl, Christoph Schwarzenberg, Georg Carle, “Evaluating the Benefits: Quantifying the Effects of TCP Options, QUIC, and CDNs on Throughput,” in Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, Jul. 2023. [Pdf] [Sourcecode] [Bib]
2023-06-01	Lion Steger, Liming Kuang, Johannes Zirngibl, Georg Carle, Oliver Gasser, “Target Acquired? Evaluating Target Generation Algorithms for IPv6,” in Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), Jun. 2023. Best Paper Award [Pdf] [Bib]
2023-06-01	Benedikt Jaeger, Johannes Zirngibl, Marcel Kempf, Kevin Ploch, Georg Carle, “QUIC on the Highway: Evaluating Performance on High-Rate Links,” in International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2023 Conference (IFIP Networking 2023), Barcelona, Spain, Jun. 2023. [Preprint] [Rawdata] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-01-01	Florian Streibelt, Patrick Sattler, Franziska Lichtblau, Carlos H. Gañán, Anja Feldmann, Oliver Gasser, Tobias Fiebig, “How Ready is DNS for an IPv6-Only World?,” in Passive and Active Measurement, Cham, 2023. Best Paper Award [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib]
2022-10-01	Johannes Zirngibl, Lion Steger, Patrick Sattler, Oliver Gasser, Georg Carle, “Rusty Clusters? Dusting an IPv6 Research Foundation,” in Proceedings of the 2022 Internet Measurement Conference, Oct. 2022. [Pdf] [Homepage] [Rawdata] [DOI] [Bib]
2022-10-01	Patrick Sattler, Juliane Aulbach, Johannes Zirngibl, Georg Carle, “Towards a Tectonic Traffic Shift? Investigating Apple’s New Relay Network,” in Proceedings of the 2022 Internet Measurement Conference, Oct. 2022. [Pdf] [Homepage] [Rawdata] [Bib]
2022-06-01	Fabian Franzen, Lion Steger, Johannes Zirngibl, Patrick Sattler, “Looking for Honey Once Again: Detecting RDP and SMB Honeypots on the Internet,” in International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity 2022, Jun. 2022. [Pdf] [Slides] [Sourcecode] [Bib]
2022-06-01	Johannes Zirngibl, Steffen Deusch, Patrick Sattler, Juliane Aulbach, Georg Carle, Mattijs Jonker, “Domain Parking: Largely Present, Rarely Considered!,” in Proc. Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) 2022, Jun. 2022. [Pdf] [Bib]
2021-11-01	Johannes Zirngibl, Philippe Buschmann, Patrick Sattler, Benedikt Jaeger, Juliane Aulbach, Georg Carle, “It’s over 9000: Analyzing early QUIC Deployments with the Standardization on the Horizon,” in Proceedings of the 2021 Internet Measurement Conference, New York, NY, USA, Nov. 2021. [Preprint] [Homepage] [Rawdata] [Recording] [DOI] [Bib]