MM-QUIC: Mobility-aware Multipath QUIC for Satellite Networks

Abstract

The Integrated Terrestrial and LEO Satellite Network (ITSN) is promising for providing ubiquitous communication services, which attracts attention but also brings new challenges. In this regard, a new transport layer protocol, Multipath QUIC (MPQUIC) appears salient advantages in tackling with the challenging environment (e.g., large propagation delays, high-speed mobility, etc.). However, the standard congestion control algorithm of MPQUIC, Opportunistic Linked Increases Algorithm (OLIA), still encounters great challenges such as congestion window (cwnd) overshooting whenever handoff, which motivates our proposal, a Mobility-aware Multipath QUIC (MM-QUIC) congestion control algorithm. MM-QUIC leverages the periodical changes of path capacity and good similarity among disjoint subflows to quickly start a new round of transmission, and employs a multipath-based fluid model to determine the cwnd adjustment in the congestion avoidance phase. Finally, simulation results on NS-3 demonstrate that MM-QUIC can offer up to 50% throughput improvement compared to OLIA in ITSN.