Measurement-based Protocol Design

The increasing public concerns about the interfer- ence of Internet traffic have led to a rapidly expanding deploy- ment of encryption to protect end-user privacy, in protocols like QUIC. At the same time, network operators and access providers, especially in mobile networks, have come to rely on the in- network functionality provided by middleboxes both to enhance performance and support network operations. This presents a need for architectural changes and new approaches to the way network transport protocols are designed. This poster will explore the opportunities to use an experimentally-driven measurement- based approach to facilitate this network architecture evolution.