EPIQ 2018 - Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ)

The transport protocol QUIC has emerged from a proprietary effort undertaken by Google to a next generation transport protocol being standardized in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). While its original motivation and design was to support next-generation Web traffic using HTTP/2, embedding QUIC into the Internet architecture raises exciting challenges beyond the necessary engineering efforts. Google QUIC has seen deployment and motivated research papers measuring, extending, and evaluating QUIC from various perspectives.
The ACM CoNEXT Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ) seeks to foster this emerging community. We invite researchers from academia and industry as well as engineers to explore novel ideas and future directions of QUIC and its interaction with applications and networks.
EPIQ solicits two types of submissions, for presentation and discussion at the workshop: academic papers and posters & demos. Submissions of both types should focus on topics related to the rise of QUIC on the mobile and fixed Internet as well as enterprise and datacenter networks. Papers focusing on either the original flavor of QUIC currently deployed by Google or the upcoming IETF standard of QUIC are in scope. We encourage submissions of demos supporting growing a community, e.g., about tools for protocol testing, deployment, and performance evaluation, among others. Open source tools are preferred.
Topics of interest include:
Qualitative and/or quantitative comparisons of QUIC to other protocols
Tools for QUIC interoperability testing, validation, and conformance
Formal models for and verification of the QUIC protocol architecture
Measurements of QUIC traffic in the wild and profiling of QUIC implementations
Acceleration techniques, including hardware offloading or specific OS improvements
Scalable QUIC implementations and load balancing
Advanced QUIC features, including integration of multicast or multipath connectivity
Peer-to-peer QUIC and NAT/firewall traversal
New abstractions and APIs for QUIC as a general-purpose transport protocol
Troubleshooting, managing and monitoring of QUIC traffic in the network
Privacy and security aspects of QUIC or of systems impacted by QUIC
New applications for QUIC (e.g., real-time interactive)
Novel approaches for congestion control enabled by QUIC
QUIC as a substrate for non-HTTP applications
Downscaling QUIC for IoT or embedded use