The QUIC Fix for Optimal Video Streaming

Abstract

Within a few years of its introduction, QUIC has gained traction: a significant chunk of traffic is now delivered over QUIC. The networking community is actively engaged in debating the fairness, performance, and applicability of QUIC for various use cases, but these debates are centered around a narrow, common theme: how does the new reliable transport built on top of UDP fare in different scenarios? Evaluation of unreliable delivery in QUIC remains largely unexplored.The option for delivering content unreliably, as in a best-effort model, deserves the QUIC designers' and the QUIC community's attention. We propose extending QUIC to support unreliable streams and discuss a simple use case of video streaming-an application that dominates the overall Internet traffic-that can leverage the unreliable streams and potentially bring immense benefits to network operators and content providers. We demonstrate, using controlledenvironment trials, how to combine reliable and unreliable streams to outperform TCP and QUIC in video streaming.

From Capturing to Rendering: Volumetric Media Delivery with Six Degrees of Freedom

“…Although these protocols offer advantages in terms of latency, the absence of adequate control mechanisms can be dramatic for the high bandwidth transmission of 6DoF content. Palmer et al address this issue for traditional video streaming by jointly optimizing the application and transport layer, using an adapted version of the QUIC protocol to reliably deliver key frames, while retrieving others without guarantees [9]. In this Time Bandwidth 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 3 3 Client HTTP Transport 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 Figure 3.…”

Access Latency Reduction in the QUIC Protocol Based on Communication History

“…However, because these studies do not consider network conditions such as the throughput, loss ratio and the number of concurrent connections, aggressive downloads can lead to excessive competition and performance degradation. In Reference [23,24], QUIC was extended to support partial reliable transmission for the performance enhancement of multimedia applications. In partial reliable transmission, essential data were transmitted reliably and, less important data were transmitted unreliably to avoid retransmission.…”

“…However, latency reduction in the QUIC protocol is limited because it also sets a small initial congestion window and employs slow start. Several studies have been conducted focusing on performance improvement, implementation validation and security [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Among these studies, some authors have proposed latency reduction schemes for QUIC.…”

“…However, as these schemes transmit QUIC packets aggressively without considering the network conditions, congestion in the networks can be aggravated. A partial reliable transmission is used to decrease latency; however, this causes data loss [23,24].…”

Autonomous framework simulation tools for real-time multimedia streaming over wireless ad-hoc networks

“…Therefore, the video conferencing will experience a loss of fidelity if the delay caused by buffering exceeds 200 ms. For instance, Twitch is a live streaming platform that may also incorporate the playing of video games and a video on demand (VoD) system that allows automatic recording of live broadcasts to be watched later. 24–26…”