So a naive UDP application will just send packets at the highest rate the network interface can support—or maybe even higher—almost certainly overloading some part of the network.

These protocols try to improve upon TCP and UDP and add congestion control and optimized throughput forwarding performance. Some of these protocols are esoteric and handle rare corner cases.

Google today announced plans to formally propose its network protocol Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) to the Internet Engineering Task Force ().In other words, the company wants to make QUIC ...