Video Streaming Over QUIC: A Comprehensive Study

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 article 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…