Research of the Effectiveness of MPQUIC Protocol Schedulers Depending on the Сongestion Сontrol Algorithms
https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2025-37(6)-16
Abstract
In recent years, the QUIC protocol has become widely popular as an alternative to TCP. In addition, Multipath technology implemented in the MPQUIC protocol is currently being widely implemented and researched. The central component of the MPQUIC protocol is the scheduler, which decides which path and at which time to send the next data packets. There are implementations of schedulers based on both heuristic rules and reinforcement learning. At the moment, the behavior of schedulers in various environments has been studied in detail in terms of path characteristics. However, the issue of their effectiveness, depending on the congestion control algorithms used, is not sufficiently sanctified. This paper presents the implementation of various schedulers and a study of their effectiveness depending on congestion control. The results obtained suggest that the scheduler can work effectively in a network environment with a certain congestion control algorithm, but it may not be effective in an environment with a different congestion control algorithm.
About the Authors
Maxim Vladimirovich POPOV
Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Graduate student at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University. Research interests: network traffic analysis, congestion control algorithms.
Ivan Alexandrovich STEPANOV
Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Postgraduate student of the ISP RAS, intern researcher at ISP RAS, an assistant at the Department of Computer Science and Computational Mathematics at MIPT. Research interests: network traffic analysis using machine learning.
Aleksandr Igorevich GETMAN
Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University),
National Research University «Higher School of Economics»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), senior researcher at ISP RAS, assistant at CMC MSU and MIPT, associate professor at HSE. Research interests: binary code analysis, data format recovery, network traffic analysis and classification.
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For citations:
POPOV M.V., STEPANOV I.A., GETMAN A.I. Research of the Effectiveness of MPQUIC Protocol Schedulers Depending on the Сongestion Сontrol Algorithms. Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS (Proceedings of ISP RAS). 2025;37(6):7-20. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2025-37(6)-16
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