TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating the Benefits
T2 - 2023 Applied Networking Research Workshop, ANRW 2023
AU - Bauer, Simon
AU - Sattler, Patrick
AU - Zirngibl, Johannes
AU - Schwarzenberg, Christoph
AU - Carle, Georg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/7/24
Y1 - 2023/7/24
N2 - To keep up with increasing demands on quality of experience, assessing and understanding the performance of network connections is crucial for web service providers. While different measures, like TCP options, alternative transport layer protocols like QUIC, or the hosting of services in CDNs, are expected to improve connection performance, no studies are quantifying such impacts on connections on the Internet. This paper introduces an active Internet measurement approach to assess the impacts of mentioned measures on connection performance. We conduct downloads from public web servers considering different vantage points, extract performance indicators like throughput, RTT, and retransmission rate, and survey speed-ups due to TCP option usage. Further, we compare the performance of QUIC-based downloads to TCP-based downloads considering different option configurations. Next to significant throughput improvements due to TCP option usage, in particular TCP window scaling, and QUIC, our study shows significantly increased performance for connections to domains hosted by different giant CDNs.
AB - To keep up with increasing demands on quality of experience, assessing and understanding the performance of network connections is crucial for web service providers. While different measures, like TCP options, alternative transport layer protocols like QUIC, or the hosting of services in CDNs, are expected to improve connection performance, no studies are quantifying such impacts on connections on the Internet. This paper introduces an active Internet measurement approach to assess the impacts of mentioned measures on connection performance. We conduct downloads from public web servers considering different vantage points, extract performance indicators like throughput, RTT, and retransmission rate, and survey speed-ups due to TCP option usage. Further, we compare the performance of QUIC-based downloads to TCP-based downloads considering different option configurations. Next to significant throughput improvements due to TCP option usage, in particular TCP window scaling, and QUIC, our study shows significantly increased performance for connections to domains hosted by different giant CDNs.
KW - CDNs
KW - Internet measurements
KW - QUIC
KW - TCP options
KW - performance measurements
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85170829867&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3606464.3606474
DO - 10.1145/3606464.3606474
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85170829867
T3 - ANRW 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Applied Networking Research Workshop
SP - 27
EP - 33
BT - ANRW 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Applied Networking Research Workshop
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 24 July 2023
ER -