A research internship project conducted at the University of Padua, focusing on evaluating the resilience of the QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) protocol in modern networks. The study, supervised by Prof. Alessandro Galeazzi and in collaboration with Dr. Enrico Bassetti , investigated potential vulnerabilities in QUIC, particularly in the context of mobile data traffic billing.

The project involved an in-depth analysis of the QUIC protocol, examining its current state-of-the-art, associated technologies, and intrinsic logic. This was followed by the design and implementation of experiments to test identified strategies that could potentially be exploited to artificially manipulate mobile traffic.

The research findings suggest that certain manipulation strategies could lead to increased data traffic for targeted users, potentially resulting in higher data consumption and associated costs. This work contributes to the ongoing discussion on network protocol security and its implications for end-users. Technologies used included Go for implementation, VirtualBox for creating controlled testing environments, and Wireshark for network traffic analysis.