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CUBIC and HyStart++ Support in quiche

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses Cloudflare's IETF QUIC implementation, focusing on congestion control and loss recovery mechanisms. It introduces CUBIC and HyStart++ as improvements to the quiche congestion control module. The post also presents lab test results comparing TCP-CUBIC with various QUIC congestion control variants under different packet loss conditions. Visualization using qlog and qvis is highlighted as a useful tool for protocol development. Future tasks include working on advanced features such as packet pacing, advanced recovery, and BBR congestion control to enhance QUIC performance.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
May 8, 2020

Author(s)
Junho Choi

Word count
2073

Language
English

Hacker News points
None found.


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