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As internet demands outgrow TCP’s limitations—particularly in latency and head-of-line blocking—the industry requires a transformation. The QUIC protocol emerges as the next-generation transport layer protocol for the Internet. This chapter delves into QUIC, a modern transport protocol built atop UDP. This chapter details QUIC’s key features, including its 0-RTT/1-RTT connection establishment, head-of-line blocking-free stream multiplexing, and integrated TLS 1.3 encryption. It analyzes core mechanisms such as QUIC packet headers, stream-level flow control, and pluggable congestion control. Finally, it introduces the design principles and advantages of MIN-QUIC. A hands-on experiment implementing stream multiplexing using QUIC helps students grasp the protocol’s design philosophy and high-performance benefits.

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The QUIC Protocol

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    2026年

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  • Hui Li,
  • Zheming Bao

摘要

As internet demands outgrow TCP’s limitations—particularly in latency and head-of-line blocking—the industry requires a transformation. The QUIC protocol emerges as the next-generation transport layer protocol for the Internet. This chapter delves into QUIC, a modern transport protocol built atop UDP. This chapter details QUIC’s key features, including its 0-RTT/1-RTT connection establishment, head-of-line blocking-free stream multiplexing, and integrated TLS 1.3 encryption. It analyzes core mechanisms such as QUIC packet headers, stream-level flow control, and pluggable congestion control. Finally, it introduces the design principles and advantages of MIN-QUIC. A hands-on experiment implementing stream multiplexing using QUIC helps students grasp the protocol’s design philosophy and high-performance benefits.