Analyzing the Adoption of QUIC From a Mobile Development Perspective

First introduced in 2013, QUIC protocol has been in constant development and it has gained great importance over time, currently being standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Previous experiments have shown that the performance of QUIC can be of particular interest for lossy wireless networks. Thus, it becomes relevant to measure and profile QUIC traffic from mobile devices in the wild. This paper analyzes the adoption of QUIC from a mobile development perspective, by using crowdsourced data from real Android users during the normal use of their mobile devices. The results obtained show a significant increase in the number of Android apps using QUIC and evidence newer efforts of companies to adopt this protocol. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first work focused on analyzing and profiling QUIC traffic from crowdsourced network measurements taken by mobile end-user devices.