Project Logbook

Week of Feb 7th, 2025

• Finalized topic: Comparative performance analysis of QUIC vs. TCP
  
  

• Conducted preliminary research on TCP and QUIC protocols
  
  

• Reviewed foundational papers including production-level QUIC and congestion control algorithms
  
  

Week of Feb 21st, 2025

• Set up QUIC (Quiche) and TCP (iperf3, OpenLiteSpeed) test environments on local machines
  
  

• Began initial tests on local setups to verify installations
  
  

• Drafted project proposal and submitted it
  
  

Week of March 7th, 2025

• Ran baseline experiments on local machines with 5MB and 200MB file transfers
  
  

• Compared QUIC (Quiche) vs. TCP (iperf3 and OpenLiteSpeed) under identical hardware conditions
  
  

• Disabled TCP offloading features (TSO, GSO, LRO, etc.) to ensure fairer comparisons
  
  

Week of March 21st, 2025

• Conducted cross-machine tests using two separate physical devices
  
  

• Transferred files under various conditions (with/without TCP optimizations)
  
  

• Explored QUIC congestion control settings (CUBIC vs. BBR)
  
  

Week of April 4th, 2025

• Ran experiments on Microsoft Azure using VMs for both QUIC and TCP testing
  
  

• Captured Wireshark graphs for cloud-based transfer sessions (50MB and 200MB)
  
  

• Tested over 5G mobile internet to assess QUIC performance in unstable networks

• Analyzed all test data and compared metrics including transfer time, CPU/memory usage, and throughput
  
  

Week of April 7th, 2025

• Completed slides for final project presentation
  
  

• Delivered in-class presentation and answered peer feedback
  
  

Week of April 18th, 2025

• Finalized report structure and wrote sections 1–10 collaboratively
  
  

• Completed Key Results, Discussion, and Member Contributions
  
  

• Submitted final written report and documentation