Towards Interplanetary QUIC Traffic
5 days ago
- #QUIC
- #Deep Space Networking
- #Interplanetary Communication
- The article discusses the use of QUIC, an internet protocol, for interplanetary communication, particularly between Earth and Mars.
- QUIC's default configuration is unsuitable for deep space due to high latency and intermittent connectivity, requiring custom configurations.
- The project aims to demonstrate QUIC's viability in deep space by running experiments with modified parameters.
- Initial experiments used virtual machines to simulate deep-space conditions, but the high latency made iterations slow.
- A new approach was developed using a simulated in-process network and a time-jumping clock to enable instantaneous experiments.
- This setup also improved determinism and debuggability, with features like synthetic .pcap files for packet inspection.
- The project is supported by Marc Blanchet and the Quinn community, with plans to open-source the experimental setup.