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Abstract | ||
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Recently, there has been a surging interest on anonymizer technologies as a result of increasing privacy concerns and censorship barriers on the Internet. Tor network has emerged as the most popular option in avail. However, popularity of Tor network is under threat of growing user frustration over low throughput and long latencies. Coincidentally, multi-path routing proposals have become popular in tackling similar performance issues in various contexts from the data center networks to the inter-domain routing. In this work, we apply multi-path techniques to overcome limitations in Tor's path construction and rigid congestion avoidance mechanisms which are major factors behind the unsatisfactory user experience. Multi-path mechanisms nicely complement underlying onion-routing mechanisms of Tor via exploiting diversity in the Tor network. Our preliminary evaluation on live Tor network revealed significant potential of performance improvements especially increasing throughput i.e., up to 4 times speed up in data transmission durations. Also, multi-path mechanisms may increase reliability of the overall system against congestion or service-interruption based attacks in return of an acceptable anonymity tradeoff. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1109/NTMS.2012.6208768 | New Technologies, Mobility and Security |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Internet,computer centres,computer network reliability,computer network security,data communication,data privacy,multipath channels,telecommunication congestion control,telecommunication network routing,Internet,Tor network,Tor path construction,anonymity tradeoff,anonymized routing,anonymizer technologies,censorship barriers,congestion avoidance mechanism,data center networks,data transmission durations,interdomain routing,multipath routing proposals,multipath techniques,onion-routing mechanisms,privacy concerns,service-interruption-based attacks,unsatisfactory user experience,user frustration | User experience design,Computer security,Computer science,Network security,Popularity,Computer network,Anonymity,Throughput,Information privacy,Data center,The Internet | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
2157-4952 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-0227-2 | 978-1-4673-0227-2 | 4 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.37 | 17 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hasan T. Karaoglu | 1 | 14 | 3.41 |
| Mehmet Burak Akgun | 2 | 5 | 0.72 |
| Mehmet Hadi Günes | 3 | 149 | 16.19 |
| Murat Yuksel | 4 | 445 | 61.52 |