Video Streaming Over QUIC: A Comprehensive Study

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Main Authors: Sidhu, Jashanjot Singh, Bentaleb, Abdelhak
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Published: 2025
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author Sidhu, Jashanjot Singh
Bentaleb, Abdelhak
author_facet Sidhu, Jashanjot Singh
Bentaleb, Abdelhak
contents The QUIC transport protocol represents a significant evolution in web transport technologies, offering improved performance and reduced latency compared to traditional protocols like TCP. Given the growing number of QUIC implementations, understanding their performance, particularly in video streaming contexts, is essential. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of various QUIC implementations, focusing on their transport-layer congestion control (CC) performance and its impact on HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) in single-server, multi-client environments. Through extensive trace-driven experiments, we explore how different QUIC CCs impact adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms in two video streaming scenarios: video-on-demand (VoD) and low-latency live streaming (LLL). Our study aims to shed light on the impact of QUIC CC implementations, queuing strategies, and cooperative versus competitive dynamics of QUIC streams on user QoE under diverse network conditions. Our results demonstrate that identical CC algorithms across different QUIC implementations can lead to significant performance variations, directly impacting the QoE of video streaming sessions. These findings offer valuable insights into the effectiveness of various QUIC implementations and their implications for optimizing QoE, underscoring the need for intelligent cross-layer designs that integrate QUIC CC and ABR schemes to enhance overall streaming performance.
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spellingShingle Video Streaming Over QUIC: A Comprehensive Study
Sidhu, Jashanjot Singh
Bentaleb, Abdelhak
Networking and Internet Architecture
The QUIC transport protocol represents a significant evolution in web transport technologies, offering improved performance and reduced latency compared to traditional protocols like TCP. Given the growing number of QUIC implementations, understanding their performance, particularly in video streaming contexts, is essential. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of various QUIC implementations, focusing on their transport-layer congestion control (CC) performance and its impact on HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) in single-server, multi-client environments. Through extensive trace-driven experiments, we explore how different QUIC CCs impact adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms in two video streaming scenarios: video-on-demand (VoD) and low-latency live streaming (LLL). Our study aims to shed light on the impact of QUIC CC implementations, queuing strategies, and cooperative versus competitive dynamics of QUIC streams on user QoE under diverse network conditions. Our results demonstrate that identical CC algorithms across different QUIC implementations can lead to significant performance variations, directly impacting the QoE of video streaming sessions. These findings offer valuable insights into the effectiveness of various QUIC implementations and their implications for optimizing QoE, underscoring the need for intelligent cross-layer designs that integrate QUIC CC and ABR schemes to enhance overall streaming performance.
title Video Streaming Over QUIC: A Comprehensive Study
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21769