REENGINEERING THE WEB: HTTP/2 AND QUIC

Abstract

Heavy usage of mobile platforms, development of the Internet of Things and increasing of web-applications complexity require better network performance. TCP and HTTP have been playing their roles successfully for decades, with certain improvements. However, today’s Internet-experience needs innovations. The paper shows a preview of modern web-protocols, which improve performance of the WWW and of the Internet in general. A look into the HTTP/2 technology is given, as well as into the new Google’s experimental QUIC protocol, enhancement features, aspects of implementations and potential drawbacks. Involving new protocols showed up to be a highly demanding task and gain in performance and security is greatly payed with complexity and extra-resource requirements.