Paper Info
Title
An Early Benchmark of Quality of Experience Between HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 using Lighthouse
Abstract
Google's QUIC (GQUIC) is an emerging transport protocol designed to reduce HTTP latency. Deployed across its platforms and positioned as an alternative to TCP+TLS, GQUIC is feature rich: offering reliable data transmission and secure communication. It addresses TCP+TLS's (i) Head of Line Blocking (HoLB), (ii) excessive round-trip times on connection establishment, and (iii) entrenchment. Efforts by the IETF are in progress to standardize the next generation of HTTP's (HTTP/3, or H3) delivery, with their own variant of QUIC. While performance benchmarks have been conducted between GQUIC and HTTP/2-over-TCP (H2), few analyses, to our knowledge, have taken place between H2 and H3. In addition, past studies rely on Page Load Time as their main, if not only, metric. The purpose of this article is to benchmark the latest draft specification of H3 and dig into a user's Quality of Experience (QoE) by using Lighthouse: an open-source (and metric diverse) auditing tool. Our findings show that, for one of H3's early implementations, H3 is mostly worse but achieves a higher average throughput.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500258
IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC 2021)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Benchmarking, QUIC, HTTP/3, Lighthouse
Conference
1550-3607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Saif Darius100.34
Chung-Horng Lung268780.56
Ashraf Matrawy314626.98